# "gmane:" search undocumented on lore.kernel.org/git 5 messages from 2019-12-30 to 2019-12-30. Participants: Philippe Blain, Eric Wong, Konstantin Ryabitsev, Jonathan Nieder, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/52543 ## Philippe Blain, 2019-12-30 23:06 Subject: "gmane:" search undocumented on lore.kernel.org/git Message-ID: <03879A6A-2E8B-45D9-A06E-51926AC949F9@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/03879A6A-2E8B-45D9-A06E-51926AC949F9%40gmail.com ``` 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. Cheers, Philippe. ``` ## Eric Wong, 2019-12-30 23:13 Subject: Re: "gmane:" search undocumented on lore.kernel.org/git Message-ID: <20191230231350.GA16499@dcvr> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20191230231350.GA16499%40dcvr In-Reply-To: <03879A6A-2E8B-45D9-A06E-51926AC949F9@gmail.com> ``` Philippe Blain 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 Ryabitsev, 2019-12-30 23:16 Subject: Re: "gmane:" search undocumented on lore.kernel.org/git Message-ID: <20191230231620.lcydd5egk4ma2rph@chatter.i7.local> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20191230231620.lcydd5egk4ma2rph%40chatter.i7.local In-Reply-To: <20191230231350.GA16499@dcvr> ``` On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 11:13:50PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: > Philippe Blain 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 Nieder, 2019-12-30 23:25 Subject: Re: "gmane:" search undocumented on lore.kernel.org/git Message-ID: <20191230232554.GA13606@google.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20191230232554.GA13606%40google.com In-Reply-To: <20191230231620.lcydd5egk4ma2rph@chatter.i7.local> ``` 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 Hamano, 2019-12-30 23:33 Subject: Re: "gmane:" search undocumented on lore.kernel.org/git Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqblrpfky5.fsf%40gitster-ct.c.googlers.com In-Reply-To: <20191230231620.lcydd5egk4ma2rph@chatter.i7.local> ``` Konstantin Ryabitsev 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. ```