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Re:Linus Torvalds: “GitHub creates useless garbage merges” by est31 on Monday September 06, 2021 @05:05PM (#28438110)
The issue with full URLs is renames of user or project names. I don't trust the inbuilt redirection support of Github this much. Plus, tools that don't shorten full URLs would get extremely long lines in their commit messages. I think the Github issue numbers translate 1:1 to Gitlab if you use the Github->Gitlab exporter. If you used full URLs, it would either have to keep the URLs, or change commit hashes, neither a really nice option.

Also, not that chromium did something different. They reference tons of internal bug IDs, change IDs, and this commit msg also has an URL with the non-standard domain go (no TLD):

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/8b4b1831e333a43d...

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Re:Linus Torvalds: “GitHub creates useless garbage merges” by anonydsfsfs on Monday September 06, 2021 @05:27PM (#28438301)
> Also, not that chromium did something different. They reference tons of internal bug IDs, change IDs, and this commit msg also has an URL with the non-standard domain go (no TLD):

The kernel does that too. Those key-value pairs are called "trailers", and are semi-standardized at https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/CommitMessageConventio...

The "git interpret-trailers" command exists to work with this kind of data.

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