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From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
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Subject: Re: RFH: --import-augment naming [was: lei q: import flags when
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Eric Wong writes:

> Oh, I forgot to note it will probably import more than just
> keywords (but maybe it can be tweaked(*)).
>
> The thing I want to protect against is somebody forgetting
> --augment when using "lei q -o imaps://example.com/INBOX ..."
> which would delete mail that hasn't been imported to lei or
> backed-up by another tool.
>
> Causing data loss in the above scenario would be a nightmare,
> even if it's technically user error.

Oy, indeed.

> There's also cases where someone will want to edit a patch in
> the search results mailbox before applying it (e.g. adding
> Acked-by, fixing whitespace, trivial errors, etc...) and
> it might be good to preserve a copy of the edited message.
>
> (*) possible directions:
>
> 	--import-$FOO=kw-only
> 	--import-$FOO=not-in-git
> 	--import-$FOO  # same as "not-in-git", this should be the default
> 	--import-$FOO=none / --no-import-$FOO

Make sense.  Your suggested "before" seems like a good choice for $FOO.