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Thu, 1 Oct 2026 02:27:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id ea674d55 (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Thu, 1 Oct 2026 06:27:46 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2026 08:27:35 +0200 From: Patrick Steinhardt To: Junio C Hamano Cc: kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com, git@vger.kernel.org, Kristoffer Haugsbakk Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/4] doc: gitbreaking-changes: replace msg-ids with URLs Message-ID: References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Wed, Sep 30, 2026 at 12:45:06PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Patrick Steinhardt writes: > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 12:41:26PM +0200, kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com wrote: > >> From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk > >> > >> This document has used msg-ids to reference emails since its > >> inception.[1] This makes the text a bit more terse, and is perhaps > >> also convenient for people who can use msg-ids to link to messages > >> in their inbox. But we should consider how convenient this is for people > >> in general, now that this is a more public-facing page (see previous > >> commit). And I suspect that most people will be forced to paste the > >> msg-id according to the described URL template: > >> > >> https://lore.kernel.org/git/$message_id/ > >> > >> Let’s instead replace all of the msg-ids with complete links. That way > >> everyone can jump right to the discussions. > > > > Fair. The links may of course break if at any point in time > > lore.kernel.org were to vanish or change its interface. But if so we can > > adapt accordingly, also because the message ID can still be extracted > > trivially. > > One caveat is that some "funny characters" in message IDs need to be > URL-encoded. > > A recent example I saw was <20260930061524.GNkIK%taahol@utu.fi>; > https://lore.kernel.org/git/20260930061524.GNkIK%25taahol@utu.fi/ is > the URL you need to visit to view the message. > > Having said that, I am somewhat negative on what this particular > patch does. We should instead give both, having something like > > cf. https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqa59i45wc.fsf@gitster.g/[^] > > in the source, and render a readable link text with reachable href > when shown in the browser. Oh, that's even better if you ask me! Patrick