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Date:      Wed, 19 Apr 2017 18:27:20 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        rgrimes@freebsd.org
Cc:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r317145 - in stable/11/sys: boot/mips/uboot conf
Message-ID:  <20170419182720.GC61084@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201704191624.v3JGOImX031395@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <201704191533.v3JFXOHk065533@repo.freebsd.org> <201704191624.v3JGOImX031395@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>

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On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 09:24:18AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > New Revision: 317145
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/317145
> > 
> > Log:
> >   ...
> >   [1] https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Output-Section-Keywords.html
> 
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^ links to external data is probably not a good idea in
> commit messages as it tends to disappear in time.

Unfortunately this is the best we can do here (apart from quoting relevant
parts, but that is also not always an option).  Any URL is better than
nothing, and even if it disappears one day there's webarchive.org.

> netbsd.org, openbsd.org, etc are propably next safer, but nothing says
> one of those can not go poof some day.

OpenBSD's PR links were all broken at least few years ago, not sure of right
now.  (Listing PR number itself would be still useful.)

./danfe



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