Re: RFH: --import-augment naming [was: lei q: import flags when clobbering/augmenting]

[Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>]

Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com> wrote:
> Eric Wong writes:
> 
> > --import-augment is the wrong name for this option,
> > since the import happens even when --augment isn't specified.
> >
> > How about "--import-before" ?
> 
> I don't have a good understanding of the internals, but fwiw that sounds
> fine to me.  Given your description of "[stash] keyword changes" and
> "import flags", --stash-keywords or --import-keywords came to mind, but
> perhaps those aren't quite accurate.

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.

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