Robert Haas wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > > On November 17, 2016 1:02:38 PM PST, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> > > wrote: > >>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.e. instead of <foo1...@bar.com> put > >><https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/foo1...@bar.com>. I know this is > >> > >>a bit more trouble. but not that much, and it would make it very easy > >>to > >>follow with just a mouse click. > > > > They're really hard to read though, because lines with e.g. gmail message > > IDs get very long even without that prefix. Do you look at these in the > > e-mail or gitweb? > > Yeah. I really hate having commit messages that are more than 70-75 > characters wide, and a message-ID takes you well above that. I wish > we had something like archives.postgresql.org/sha/5bcd5142 instead of > basing everything off the message-ID.
The advantage of using the message-ID is that you can use it while offline too (very common among this crowd to do stuff while on planes, since conferences and such are so frequent now), so I wouldn't make that trade. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
