Re: Mail thread references in commits

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > I love seeing references to email threads in commit messages. It would 
> > make them a lot friendlier though if a full http URL were included 
> > instead of just a Message-ID,
> 
> I've intentionally not done that, because it does not seem very
> future-proof.  The message ids will hopefully be unique indefinitely far
> into the future, but the location of our archives could move.

It won't.  We have far too many in the archives to risk breaking them.
In fact, we (Magnus) went great lengths to implement a system so that
old-style PHP links (of which we have a bunch in very old archives,
including in commit messages) continue to work to this day.  We're far
too invested in the system now, because of how successful it has proved
to be.

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