Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] RelNotes: replace Gmane with real Message-IDs

From: Denton Liu <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 16:16:14 -0800

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 11:28:57AM -0800, Denton Liu wrote:
> The only references to Gmane that remain are in RelNotes. Although these
> are definitely not in active use, they might be of historical interest
> for future readers so let's ensure that mail references are more robust.
> 
> Replace links to Gmane with links to LKML (which is our new preferred

In this and the last patch, I had a brainfart and I thought LKML and
lore.kernel.org were the same thing but obviously they're not.

> mailing list archive and has the Message-ID in the URL) and bare Gmane
> ID references with Message-IDs.
> 
> The Message-IDs were found by searching for "gmane:<id>" on
> https://public-inbox.org/git/ and taking the resulting message.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.txt | 2 +-
>  Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.txt | 2 +-
>  Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.txt | 2 +-
>  Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.txt | 2 +-
>  Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.txt | 2 +-
>  Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt | 2 +-
>  Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt | 3 ++-
>  Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt | 4 ++--
>  Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt | 2 +-
>  9 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.txt
> index ad060f4f89..980adfb315 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.2.txt
> @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ push running this release will issue a big warning when the
>  configuration variable is missing.  Please refer to:
>  
>    http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare
> -  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007
> +  https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/
>  
>  for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the
>  transition plan.
> diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.txt
> index 418c685cf8..4bcff945e0 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.3.txt
> @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ push running this release will issue a big warning when the
>  configuration variable is missing.  Please refer to:
>  
>    http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare
> -  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007
> +  https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/
>  
>  for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the
>  transition plan.
> diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.txt
> index 7a904419f7..a2a34b43a7 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.4.txt
> @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ push running this release will issue a big warning when the
>  configuration variable is missing.  Please refer to:
>  
>    http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare
> -  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007
> +  https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/
>  
>  for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the
>  transition plan.
> diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.txt
> index ee141c19ad..6c7f7da7eb 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.5.txt
> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ push running this release will issue a big warning when the
>  configuration variable is missing.  Please refer to:
>  
>    http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare
> -  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007
> +  https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/
>  
>  for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the
>  transition plan.
> diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.txt
> index c50b59c495..3ed1e01433 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.6.6.txt
> @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ users will fare this time.
>     Please refer to:
>  
>     http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#non-bare
> -   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/107758/focus=108007
> +   https://lore.kernel.org/git/[email-masked]/
>  
>     for more details on the reason why this change is needed and the
>     transition process that already took place so far.
> diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
> index 02f681b710..255e185af6 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt
> @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Foreign interfaces, subsystems and ports.
>     credential helper interface from Git.pm.
>  
>   * Update build for Cygwin 1.[57].  Torsten Bögershausen reports that
> -   this is fine with Cygwin 1.7 ($gmane/225824) so let's try moving it
> +   this is fine with Cygwin 1.7 (cf. <[email-masked]>) so let's try moving it
>     ahead.
>  
>   * The credential helper to talk to keychain on OS X (in contrib/) has
> diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt
> index 87044504c5..84723f912a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.0.txt
> @@ -172,7 +172,8 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
>     incorrect patch text to "git apply".  Add tests to demonstrate
>     this.
>  
> -   I have a slight suspicion that this may be $gmane/87202 coming back
> +   I have a slight suspicion that this may be
> +   cf. <[email-masked]> coming back
>     and biting us (I seem to have said "let's run with this and see
>     what happens" back then).
>  
> diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt
> index fedd9968e5..266c4781a8 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.3.txt
> @@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ Fixes since v2.8.2
>     This is necessary to use Git on Windows shared directories, and is
>     already enabled for the MinGW and plain Windows builds.  It also
>     has been used in Cygwin packaged versions of Git for quite a while.
> -   See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/291853
> -   and http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/275680.
> +   See https://lkml.org/git/[email-masked]/
> +   and https://lkml.org/git/[email-masked]/.

Brainfart continues here... Wrong URL.

>  
>   * "git replace -e" did not honour "core.editor" configuration.
>  
> diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt
> index b61d36712f..d5f95b6641 100644
> --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.0.txt
> @@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ notes for details).
>     This is necessary to use Git on Windows shared directories, and is
>     already enabled for the MinGW and plain Windows builds.  It also
>     has been used in Cygwin packaged versions of Git for quite a while.
> -   See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/291853
> +   See https://lkml.org/git/[email-masked]/

And here. If Peff's series gets picked up, I'll reroll mine as well.

>  
>   * "merge-octopus" strategy did not ensure that the index is clean
>     when merge begins.
> -- 
> 2.24.0.504.g3cd56eb17d
>