Repository Reorganization Question

[Simon Marlow]

On 06/12/2013 15:43, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
 > On 2013-12-06 at 13:50:55 +0100, Johan Tibell wrote:
 >> Whichever way to go, we should write down the options and 
consequences and
 >> communicating them widely enough so no core devs get surprised.
 >>
 >> Commit IDs for the test suite are referenced in e.g. various Trac 
issues,
 >> on mailing lists (although rarely), and perhaps even in code.
 >
 > ...as I hinted at in an earlier post, the old commit-ids will still
 > allow to find the original commit; for isntance, there's already the
 > find-commit-by-sha1 service at
 >
 >    http://git.haskell.org/.findhash/<commit-sha1-prefix>
 >
 > which searches all repos hosted at git.haskell.org for the given sha1
 > prefix; there's also a convenient text-entry field at
 > http://git.haskell.org/ which allows you to copy'n'paste any commit-ids
 > you might come across in emails, irc logs, trac comments or even commit
 > messages...
 >
 > ...does this lookup-service alleviate your concerns?

No :-)  To be honest I would probably just paste the SHA1 into Google 
and find it that way, which would probably work.  But it's *far* better 
if the links just work.

While I'm here can I just point out that old links into the mailing list 
archives are still broken, AFAIK.  I run into this quite often, and it's 
a total pain, because you have no idea how to find the message that the 
link was originally pointing at.

Cheers,
Simon