On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:33 AM, Ned Deily <n...@python.org> wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2017, at 16:35, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 at 12:23 Ned Deily <n...@python.org> wrote:
>>> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something. Are we planning to alter existing 
>>> commit messages as part of the hg to fit transition?
>> No, we are not mucking with the history as part of the transition.
>
> Sorry, I don't mean to resurrect any old discussions that I've forgotten 
> about here but, just to be clear, that means that we will no longer be able 
> to click through from the web pages of the tens of thousands of old commits 
> back to their corresponding bug web pages as we can do today?
>
> For example, https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/aa7ac93d23b2 (eventually) 
> links back to https://bugs.python.org/issue20185 (at least it should if the 
> SSL certificate weren't expired today), whereas the corresponding git commit 
> (https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/9f889393ab0362229c42bc31056f3ef9735a1d27)
>  does not and will not provide a link back?  That's ... unfortunate.

Correct, but that can be solved by using a small browser extension. I
once wrote an extension that automatically generates
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=NNNN links for "Bug NNNN" markers
on GitHub.

--Berker
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