From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to search on emacs-devel? Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2022 14:23:54 -0800 Message-ID: <87fsnqlq85.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <874k47nemv.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87wnh3lzo1.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87o82enbyc.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87k0d2lr9f.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31161"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:hwO/6Oq/gPLPkDwcH9TccR6Fraw= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 23:24:37 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nS4jV-0007vx-AR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2022 23:24:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43362 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nS4jT-0006nj-Vr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2022 17:24:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56838) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nS4iz-00068V-13 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2022 17:24:05 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:38462) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nS4ix-0000kr-KB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2022 17:24:04 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nS4iu-0007Ej-GZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2022 23:24:00 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:286978 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Gotcha. I was thinking this would be a git interface to whatever mail >> store happened to be out there in the wild, but you're describing >> something where it's the IMAP server that interfaces with "the wild", >> and git is just the internal store? I guess I don't see a major >> advantage to just using IMAP directly... > > The idea is that the use of IMAP would be a transient artifact and > ditched at some point when the MTA can deliver directly to your > MailGit mailbox. > > Then instead of fetching mail via IMAP and being f**ed when you're > offline, you "git pull" to quickly and efficiently get a complete local > copy of your mailbox (and `git push` to send back up the information > about which message you've read/deleted, the tags you've added, or > whether you moved some messages to other folders, ...). > > There are many tricky parts, tho: > - Find a good layout to avoid conflicts during `git merge`. > - Figure out a way to let Git forget old mail you really want deleted. > - Write a bidi-gateway with something like IMAP so you can start using > it before reaching the brave new world where your favorite email > provider support MailGit format mailboxes. Okay! Makes sense, and there are some interesting things to think about there. MailGit might sit nicely next to BuGit in the Monnierware multiverse :) I'd be happy to spitball this and contribute some code as things progress.