Re: Mail thread references in commits

Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Joshua Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>> Why not hash the URL? Something like:
>> Http://postgresopen.org/archive/743257890976432

> I suggested that upthread...

Don't like the hashing idea because that would be useless for searching,
eg, one's own local mail archives. Also, if you are looking at a message
in your own mail store when composing a commit message (which I generally
am, don't know about other committers) how are you going to get the hash?
I think it's important to have the message-ID in cleartext.

AFAICS the proposal here is to go from, eg,

Discussion: <CAF4Au4w6rrH_j1bvVhzpOsRiHCog7sGJ3LSX0tY8ZdwhHT88LQ(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>

to

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAF4Au4w6rrH_j1bvVhzpOsRiHCog7sGJ3LSX0tY8ZdwhHT88LQ@mail.gmail.com

which is annoying, but the line was overlength already. Maybe we could
drop the Discussion: prefix and just write a URL:

https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAF4Au4w6rrH_j1bvVhzpOsRiHCog7sGJ3LSX0tY8ZdwhHT88LQ@mail.gmail.com

That's still overlength for gmail message-IDs, though, so I'm not sure
it's worth losing the label for.

regards, tom lane