On 06/12/2013 15:43, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> On 2013-12-06 at 13:50:55 +0100, Johan Tibell wrote:
>> Whichever way to go, we should write down the options and
consequences and
>> communicating them widely enough so no core devs get surprised.
>>
>> Commit IDs for the test suite are referenced in e.g. various Trac
issues,
>> on mailing lists (although rarely), and perhaps even in code.
>
> ...as I hinted at in an earlier post, the old commit-ids will still
> allow to find the original commit; for isntance, there's already the
> find-commit-by-sha1 service at
>
> http://git.haskell.org/.findhash/<commit-sha1-prefix>
>
> which searches all repos hosted at git.haskell.org for the given sha1
> prefix; there's also a convenient text-entry field at
> http://git.haskell.org/ which allows you to copy'n'paste any commit-ids
> you might come across in emails, irc logs, trac comments or even commit
> messages...
>
> ...does this lookup-service alleviate your concerns?
No :-) To be honest I would probably just paste the SHA1 into Google
and find it that way, which would probably work. But it's *far* better
if the links just work.
While I'm here can I just point out that old links into the mailing list
archives are still broken, AFAIK. I run into this quite often, and it's
a total pain, because you have no idea how to find the message that the
link was originally pointing at.
Cheers,
Simon
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