On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 6:17 AM Alexander Potashev <aspotas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 6:47 AM Bhushan Shah <bs...@kde.org> wrote: > > Use case 4 : Tom is a student in Germany and is interested in > > contributing to wikitolearn, and he asks where can I find code of the > > wikitolearn? > > Hi,
Hi Alexander, > > I have a similar use case. Sometimes I need to share a URL to a > project. For this purpose I used to share e.g. > https://cgit.kde.org/releaseme.git/about > > Does this migration make such permalinks impossible? > > > From what I see, we lose permalinks because > 1. cgit.kde.org will be discontinued We provide the commits.kde.org redirector for permanent links. Anywhere needing a long life link to a particular repository, commit, etc (like documentation) should be using these links and not anything else. > 2. A once valid URL https://invent.kde.org/games/knetwalk may become > unavailable if the project moves to another group, for example > https://invent.kde.org/unmaintained/knetwalk > As mentioned by Nicolas, Gitlab maintains redirects so if such a move were to take place, the above links would continue to work. The only time this is not the case is when a new repository takes it's place. > -- > Alexander Potashev Cheers, Ben