On 2013-12-09 at 09:18:09 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: [...]
...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.
What kind of links are you referring to btw? I don't see any clickable GHC SHA1 ids these days anymore... :-) ...any SHA1 links into the testsuite never had any chance of working in the first place out-of-the-box, unless they used Trac syntax to specify they referred to the testsuite repository. And now that we've disabled wiki-format rendering of commit messages again, we have lost that again as well. What I'm trying to say is, that I don't see any regression at all here. I.e. we wouldn't break any facility that didn't work before anyway. Cheers, hvr