tl;dr: plain DXR links quickly become outdated -> push people to use
perma-links instead by adjusting the DXR UI.
Long version:
When a link like [1] - let's call it a plain link, the link copied from
the URL bar - is added to e.g. bugzilla or an email, it will soon point
to a wrong line when changes to the file are made or even become an
invalid link when the file is renamed or goes away completely.
The correct link is either [2] (perma link) or [3] (blame link)
referring the changeset.
I can see people putting these plain links to bugzilla, emails, blog
posts on and on. They simply copy the URL from the address bar.
Can we find some way to push users of DXR to use the correct permanent
URL to link to? I personally don't fine the "Permalink" markup under
Navigation enough visible or action-like. A big button [ Copy link to
this code ] or something? Not sure. But I find this be a problem, so
something should be done here.
-hb-
[1] https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/moz.build#65
[2]
https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/763fe887c37cee5fcfe0f00e94fdffc84a41ea1c/moz.build#65
[3]
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/annotate/763fe887c37cee5fcfe0f00e94fdffc84a41ea1c/moz.build#l65
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