Any concrete plans after the GDB BoF?

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Tom,

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 02:08:18PM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> writes:
> 
> Mark> For gdb-patches you want to add the following to your .git/config:
> 
> Mark> [b4]
> Mark>     midmask = https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb-patches/%s
> Mark>     linkmask = https://inbox.sourceware.org.org/gdb-patches/%s

Note the typo in the second line. It has double org.org. Obviously
should be single .org.

> I also have:
> 
> 	searchmask = https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb-patches/all/?x=m&t=1&q=%s
> 
> Do I not need this?

Interesting. This is a new setting for using a global search index on
the public-inbox instance. If we had that on inbox.sourceware.org the
URL would be: https://inbox.sourceware.org/all/?x=m&t=1&q=%s I am not
sure which functionality of b4 this matches to.  It would help with
searches of references of a commit on other mailinglists.
If it is just for the gdb-patches list then the URL would be
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb-patches/?x=m&t=1&q=%s

Having a full global text search for all lists is slightly heavy (it
is a full text index by xapian. If you can figure out what it
precisely is used for then we have to see how much extra disk space is
needed for that.

If it is just for text searching of auxiliary lists then the following
might all that is needed:
https://inbox.sourceware.org/binutils/?x=m&t=1&q=%s
(aka, text search just the binutils list)

Cheers,

Mark