[vlc-devel] Migration to Merge Requests

[Alexandre Janniaux]

Hi,

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 11:50:46PM +0200, Pierre Ynard via vlc-devel wrote:
> > Yes, I figure, and it makes sense. My main problem with that is all
> > the existing links to particular commits on GitWeb, in particular
> > everywhere in the bug tracker. A solution could be elaborate rewrite
> > rules to redirect those to the corresponding GitLab URLs, similarly to
> > the plan for Trac; the URL patterns are a bit more complicated though.
>
> Or also all the docs on the web that say to update youtube.lua from
> https://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=blob_plain;f=share/lua/playlist/youtube.lua
>
> ¯\(°_o)/¯

Permanent redirection is fairly well supported by browsers
so should update the bookmarks, and redirect the links to
avoid breaking those documentations. It probably needs some
effort to list most of the sensible links to redirect
though.

Regards,
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Alexandre Janniaux
Videolabs