# References to old messages 4 messages from 2016-12-21 to 2016-12-22. Participants: Stephen & Linda Smith, Stefan Beller, Junio C Hamano, Eric Wong. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/44751 ## Stephen & Linda Smith, 2016-12-21 23:12 Subject: References to old messages Message-ID: <2284357.IWoC4bU66L@thunderbird> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/2284357.IWoC4bU66L%40thunderbird ``` I want to pick up work on a patch that I was working on previously. I had been told to reference (i.e. footnote) a gmane URL. With that service no longer being being online, what is the preferred method footnoting? sps ``` ## Stefan Beller, 2016-12-21 23:15 Subject: Re: References to old messages Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAGZ79kbVvWbdHrVhO%2BLbf1snuBFyeUggsjvMGwJW%3Dn07dgyX%2BQ%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <2284357.IWoC4bU66L@thunderbird> ``` On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Stephen & Linda Smith wrote: > I want to pick up work on a patch that I was working on previously. > > I had been told to reference (i.e. footnote) a gmane URL. With that service > no longer being being online, what is the preferred method footnoting? > > sps See https://public-inbox.org/git/ ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2016-12-21 23:20 Subject: Re: References to old messages Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqoa04hnsq.fsf%40gitster.mtv.corp.google.com In-Reply-To: <2284357.IWoC4bU66L@thunderbird> ``` Stephen & Linda Smith writes: > I want to pick up work on a patch that I was working on previously. > > I had been told to reference (i.e. footnote) a gmane URL. With that service > no longer being being online, what is the preferred method footnoting? > > sps The NNTP interface of GMane is still working, so referring to e.g. $gmane/286483 _could_ identify a message uniquely, but people who do not usually talk NNTP to GMane won't be able to find the message with 286483, so it is not very nice. The same message is referred to like this around here these days: https://public-inbox.org/git/1455685597-22445-1-git-send-email-ischis2@cox.net/ The point is people know its message id is <14556855...@cox.net> and refer to other archives with it, even when public-inbox.org is not available. ``` ## Eric Wong, 2016-12-22 01:00 Subject: Re: References to old messages Message-ID: <20161222010035.GA15011@starla> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20161222010035.GA15011%40starla In-Reply-To: <2284357.IWoC4bU66L@thunderbird> ``` Stephen & Linda Smith wrote: > I had been told to reference (i.e. footnote) a gmane URL. With that service > no longer being being online, what is the preferred method footnoting? What the others said about Message-IDs and public-inbox :) If you only have old URLs pointing to gmane and no NNTP access, you can also search for "gmane:$ARTICLE_NUMBER" via public-inbox (at least up to messages around this summer): https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=gmane:12345 https://public-inbox.org/git/_/text/help documents other search prefixes you can use, too. ```