Link mail message with git notes

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 02 April 2013 15:13:15 Ondřej Bílka wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 01:31:59PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > my only recourse is to take that commit message and search the mailing
> > lists and *hope* that i find it on one of the public ones related to the
> > project. this works a good amount of the time (i'd say ~85%), but it's
> > very time consuming.
> 
> What about having something like
> 
> $ git log
> ...
> Notes:
>     Thread: http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-04/msg00037.html
> 
> Linking can be done retrospectively with script that automates
> searching in archives.
> 
> Then adding note would be done in post-commit hook.
> 
> Probably someone already has script that does something similar. I would
> be grateful if I did not have to reinvent wheel.

that's a great idea.  i'll try & keep it in mind next time i have to go 
digging through the archives.

> >  what makes it even worse is mailman's archiving behavior of
> > 
> > splitting across months.  the original message might be in one month, and
> > follow up responses might happen in a different one, or even spread
> > across a few.  this makes coordinating things even more of a pita.
> 
> Perhaps write to mailman developers? I looked for alternatives and they
> also split across months.

i'm not going to hold my breath.  have they even fixed unicode support yet ?  
last i looked (granted, this was like a year ago), they hadn't even gotten 
that right.
-mike
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