Re: Replacing Link trailers

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

On 2025-10-13 12:35, James Bottomley wrote:
>>
>> Because I still believe that "if you use tools, then 'b4 dig' is
>> better than *any* pointless tag that just is entirely redundant and
>> only cuts down on the available information".
> 
> I think we could possibly get the best of both worlds.  Once b4 dig
> works well enough, it should be possible to do that server side as well
> as client side, so we could get lore to do the server side stuff and
> have a lore link that produces the output taking a message-id as input
> like the link: tags do now (say https://lore.kernel.org/dig/<msgid>)
> 
> That way the tooling that uses msgid would still work (with a bit of
> tweaking) and there is a clickable link that hopefully provides more
> useful information.
> 

See my other reply. This might work *strictly* in a Linux kernel context, but
the goal should be git-universal tooling, and the Message-ID simply does not
contain enough information.

	-hpa