From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: A note from the maintainer Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:03:21 -0800 Message-ID: <7v8x30vdli.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7vir24vgmy.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Jan 08 11:03:58 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JCBJM-0004Ww-JH for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:03:57 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751171AbYAHKDa (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 05:03:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751156AbYAHKDa (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 05:03:30 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:56346 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751122AbYAHKD3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 05:03:29 -0500 Received: from a-sasl-quonix (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93706AFA4; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 05:03:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 190C7AFA3; Tue, 8 Jan 2008 05:03:23 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Jakub Narebski's message of "Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:57:16 -0800 (PST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jakub Narebski writes: > Junio C Hamano writes: > >> * IRC and Mailing list > >> When you point at a message in a mailing list archive, using >> gmane is often the easiest to follow by readers, like this: >> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/27/focus=217 >> >> as it also allows people who subscribe to the mailing list as >> gmane newsgroup to "jump to" the article. > > Isn't it better to give Message-ID (perhaps with addition to > some archive URLs)? Then please do so. I have no problem with that. But I am talking about practices of people who give pointer to list archives as URL in this section, and I am just sick and tired of seeing references to marc.info that does not give you useful threaded interface. > What about "offcuts" branch? What about it? It is not that relevant to people new to the community.