Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Eric Wong <e@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > There'll be over 5000K injected messages from 2006 I missed from > > the initial import :x > > > > I noticed this while adding gmane:NNNN mapping support to the > > search engine: > > https://public-inbox.org/git/20160811002819.GA8311@starla/T/#u > > > > There will still be some missing messages because some are spam. > > news.gmane.org remains up if you want to check my work > > (please do, because I am careless) > > Thanks for doing this. No problem! > I wanted to try out your NTTP service, but it took me a while to dig > in my inbox to find your announcement of news.public-inbox.org that > hosts inbox.comp.version-control.git "newsgroup". Is it possible to > make this a bit more discoverable, or there is not enough NNTP > audience these days to warrant such an addition? I first went to > http://public-inbox.org/git as I expected there may be some pointers > to other instances of the service, where you list the "git clone" > URL of the archive. Oops, I keep forgetting to do that :x Should be easier to do now since I cleaned up the footer generation a few weeks back. > By the way, it felt quite strange to see messages from 8 years ago > mixed with more recent messages when I gold Gnus to fetch the most > recent 333 messages (and of course that fetches 333 messages with > largest message numbers, not sorted by "Date:"). I am assuming that > this is an artifact of "over 5k injected messages" bundle that was > added out of order. Yes, definitely an artifact of fixing that screwup. For future inbox imports (maybe LKML), I may leave gaps in the sequence along the way, but I'm not sure how big the gaps should or could be. I suppose one could assign NNTP article numbers like line numbers in BASIC... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html