On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 at 15:14 Berker Peksağ <berker.pek...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Which is also another reason to add a namespace to the issue numbers to
prevent accidental linking if an extension is used.
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