On 23 August 2017 at 16:47, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 02:46:30PM +0100, Adam Spiers wrote: >> >> Done at least once already: >> >> >> >> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/201591 >> [...] >> >> but sadly since then gmane has shuffled off its mortal coil and I can't >> remember / find what this URL referred to. Please could someone >> point me at a working link? > > Try: > > https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=gmane:201591 > > Public-inbox uses message-ids as its primary key, but keeps a static > mapping of gmane articles to message-ids. But the corpus of gmane ids > isn't growing anymore, and public-inbox URLs can be trivially converted > to other systems which index on the message id[1]. Thanks a lot; that's super helpful! > [1] I actually keep a local archive and convert public-inbox URLs into > local requests that I view in mutt. Sounds like a neat trick - any scripts / config worth sharing?
