Re: [RFC PATCH 2/4] doc: gitbreaking-changes: replace msg-ids with URLs

Patrick Steinhardt [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 12:41:26PM +0200, kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com wrote:

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From: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <redacted>

This document has used msg-ids to reference emails since its
inception.[1] This makes the text a bit more terse, and is perhaps
also convenient for people who can use msg-ids to link to messages
in their inbox. But we should consider how convenient this is for people
in general, now that this is a more public-facing page (see previous
commit). And I suspect that most people will be forced to paste the
msg-id according to the described URL template:

    https://lore.kernel.org/git/$message_id/

Let’s instead replace all of the msg-ids with complete links. That way
everyone can jump right to the discussions.

Fair. The links may of course break if at any point in time
lore.kernel.org were to vanish or change its interface. But if so we can
adapt accordingly, also because the message ID can still be extracted
trivially.

One caveat is that some "funny characters" in message IDs need to be
URL-encoded.

A recent example I saw was [ref];
https://lore.kernel.org/git/20260930061524.GNkIK%25taahol@utu.fi/ (local) is
the URL you need to visit to view the message.

Having said that, I am somewhat negative on what this particular
patch does.  We should instead give both, having something like

 cf. https://lore.kernel.org/git/xmqqa59i45wc.fsf@gitster.g/[ (local)<xmqqa59i45wc.fsf@gitster.g>^]

in the source, and render a readable link text with reachable href
when shown in the browser.