Re: Mail thread references in commits

On November 18, 2016 1:06:18 PM PST, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Joshua Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
>wrote:
>>> Why not hash the URL? Something like:
>>> Http://postgresopen.org/archive/743257890976432
>
>> I suggested that upthread...
>
>Don't like the hashing idea because that would be useless for
>searching,
>eg, one's own local mail archives.  Also, if you are looking at a
>message
>in your own mail store when composing a commit message (which I
>generally
>am, don't know about other committers) how are you going to get the
>hash?
>I think it's important to have the message-ID in cleartext.

I do ask of that offline or at least locally. So I won't use something that makes that uncomfortable.

Andres
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