Repository Reorganization Question

[Simon Marlow]

On 09/12/2013 08:24, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> 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... :-)

I'm confused.  We definitely do have clickable commit links, inserted 
automatically by the post-commit hook, e.g.:

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8577#comment:21

Those links would break if the hashes change, right?

Cheers,
	Simon