* References to old messages
@ 2016-12-21 23:12 Stephen & Linda Smith
2016-12-21 23:15 ` Stefan Beller
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From: Stephen & Linda Smith @ 2016-12-21 23:12 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Git Mailing List
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
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* Re: References to old messages
2016-12-21 23:12 References to old messages Stephen & Linda Smith
@ 2016-12-21 23:15 ` Stefan Beller
2016-12-21 23:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-12-22 1:00 ` Eric Wong
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From: Stefan Beller @ 2016-12-21 23:15 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Stephen & Linda Smith; +Cc: Git Mailing List
On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Stephen & Linda Smith <ischis2@cox.net> 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/
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* Re: References to old messages
2016-12-21 23:12 References to old messages Stephen & Linda Smith
2016-12-21 23:15 ` Stefan Beller
@ 2016-12-21 23:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-12-22 1:00 ` Eric Wong
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From: Junio C Hamano @ 2016-12-21 23:20 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Stephen & Linda Smith; +Cc: Git Mailing List
Stephen & Linda Smith <ischis2@cox.net> 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.
$gmane/286483 _could_ identify a message uniquely, but people who do
not usually talk NNTP to GMane won't be able to find the message
with 286483, so it is not very nice.
The same message is referred to like this around here these days:
https://public-inbox.org/git/1455685597-22445-1-git-send-email-ischis2@cox.net/
The point is people know its message id is <14556855...@cox.net> and
refer to other archives with it, even when public-inbox.org is not
available.
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* Re: References to old messages
2016-12-21 23:12 References to old messages Stephen & Linda Smith
2016-12-21 23:15 ` Stefan Beller
2016-12-21 23:20 ` Junio C Hamano
@ 2016-12-22 1:00 ` Eric Wong
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From: Eric Wong @ 2016-12-22 1:00 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Stephen & Linda Smith; +Cc: git
Stephen & Linda Smith <ischis2@cox.net> wrote:
> I had been told to reference (i.e. footnote) a gmane URL. With that service
> no longer being being online, what is the preferred method footnoting?
What the others said about Message-IDs and public-inbox :)
If you only have old URLs pointing to gmane and no NNTP access,
you can also search for "gmane:$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.
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