Repository Reorganization Question

[Simon Marlow]

On 09/12/2013 09:28, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Montag, den 09.12.2013, 09:23 +0000 schrieb Simon Marlow:
>> 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?
>
> but, as Herbert pointed out, these links point to the testsuite
> repository explicitly (deadbeef/testsuite). If there did not do that,
> they would be dead already (e.g. if someone would write them manually
> and not paying attention to that).
>
> And since they are qualified by the repository they point to, they will
> continue to point to the (then uncontinued, but unmodified) testsuite
> repository. Which is – I believe – sufficient to make sense out of old
> tickets.
>
> The links to the ghc repository are of course unchanged, there is no
> plan to rewrite history here.

Ah yes, I see.  That's fine then.

Cheers,
Simon