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Subject: "gmane:" search undocumented on lore.kernel.org/git
Philippe BlainHello all,
I just noticed that the help page on lore.kernel.org/git does not mention the possibility of searching for messages using Gmane id’s, as the public-inbox.org/git help page does.
The search works though, it’s just undocumented, so I thought I’d share; I don’t know how much control we have on the lore.kernel.org public-inbox installation.
Cheers, Philippe.
Re: "gmane:" search undocumented on lore.kernel.org/git
Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all, > > I just noticed that the help page on lore.kernel.org/git does not mention the possibility of searching for messages using Gmane id’s, as the public-inbox.org/git help page does. > > The search works though, it’s just undocumented, so I thought I’d share; I don’t know how much control we have on the lore.kernel.org public-inbox installation.
+Cc Konstantin who runs lore.
Unless you're getting load-balanced to differently configured instances, I think it's luck that the "gmane:" queries you tried work.
gmane: doesn't seem configured on lore at all. Compare:
https://lore.kernel.org/git/?q=gmane:1 https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=gmane:1
Konstantin RyabitsevRe: "gmane:" search undocumented on lore.kernel.org/git
On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 11:13:50PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I just noticed that the help page on lore.kernel.org/git does not mention the possibility of searching for messages using Gmane id’s, as the public-inbox.org/git help page does. > > > > The search works though, it’s just undocumented, so I thought I’d share; I don’t know how much control we have on the lore.kernel.org public-inbox installation. > > +Cc Konstantin who runs lore. > > Unless you're getting load-balanced to differently configured > instances, I think it's luck that the "gmane:" queries you tried > work. > > gmane: doesn't seem configured on lore at all. Compare: > > https://lore.kernel.org/git/?q=gmane:1 > https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=gmane:1
I haven't configured them because I don't understand what benefit they serve. If someone can explain their benefit, I can consider adding this to the roadmap.
-K
Jonathan NiederRe: "gmane:" search undocumented on lore.kernel.org/git
Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 11:13:50PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
>> gmane: doesn't seem configured on lore at all. Compare: >> >> https://lore.kernel.org/git/?q=gmane:1 >> https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=gmane:1 > > I haven't configured them because I don't understand what benefit they > serve. If someone can explain their benefit, I can consider adding this > to the roadmap.
They allow finding the messages referred to by historic gmane.org links. For example,
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/151297/focus=151435
refers to https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=gmane:151435, and
$gmane/127980
refers to https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=gmane:127980. There are numerous examples of both kinds of references in the mailing list archive.
Thanks, Jonathan
Junio C HamanoRe: "gmane:" search undocumented on lore.kernel.org/git
Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> writes:
>> gmane: doesn't seem configured on lore at all. Compare: >> >> https://lore.kernel.org/git/?q=gmane:1 >> https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=gmane:1 > > I haven't configured them because I don't understand what benefit they > serve. If someone can explain their benefit, I can consider adding this > to the roadmap.
Just that many old messages you find in the lore and public-inbox archive (and also a handful of commit log messages) use the syntax like $gmane/290280 to refer to messages on the list with gmane plus the article numbers.