Re: Mail thread references in commits

* Magnus Hagander (magnus(at)hagander(dot)net) wrote:
> On Nov 19, 2016 15:33, "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
> > I can think of at least one scenario where you might not easily have
> access to any invented ID - you're the author and you have mailing list
> me-too turned off, so you don't have anything that the mailing list has
> inserted. I honestly think we should just stick with the Message-ID value
> and get over the ugliness.

That's actually not the case if we use a hash, because the client could
figure out what the hash is before sending it.

> > Putting the clickable URL in a header("X-Archive-Link" ?) is a good idea,
> though. Using my MUA (Thunderbird) that would make it as simple to get as
> View Source (Ctrl-U) and a simple C&P, which would make committers' lives
> easy. I bet others might appreciate it too.
>
> As a thunderbird user you might be interested in something like
> https://github.com/mhagander/pgarchives. I don't know if it works with
> modern versions of thunderbird, but hopefully it does. And would be more
> convenient than the view source way..

Particulalrly if there is an extension for it...

Thanks!

Stephen