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From: Ben Gamari <bgamari@gmail.com>
To: Mark Anderson <markr.anderson@amd.com>
Cc: notmuch <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: Mail in git
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:34:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1266435265-sup-5024@ben-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3wd3a0z7jjv.fsf@mhdcelk-nx01.amd.com>

Excerpts from Mark Anderson's message of Wed Feb 17 14:23:48 -0500 2010:
> But if we have notmuch as a cache of the tags, then don't we already
> know the tree objects that need updating?  Yes, we would probably need
> some consistency checks for when things don't work as planned, but in
> the common case we ought to always know.
> 
Cached or not, rewriting would still be an incredibly (e.g.
prohibitively or close to it) expensive operation for a large mailstore.

> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding these tree objects, and you're suggesting
> that we don't even tell notmuch about them.
> 
I think it would be unwise to teach notmuch anything about the
underlying store. That would be leaking way too many implementation
details into 

- Ben

  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-17 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-15  0:29 Mail in git Stewart Smith
2010-02-16  9:08 ` Michal Sojka
2010-02-16 19:06 ` Ben Gamari
2010-02-17  0:21   ` Stewart Smith
2010-02-17 10:07     ` Stewart Smith
2011-05-21  7:05       ` martin f krafft
2011-05-21  7:25         ` Stewart Smith
2010-02-17  1:21 ` martin f krafft
2010-02-17 15:03   ` Ben Gamari
2010-02-17 19:23     ` Mark Anderson
2010-02-17 19:34       ` Ben Gamari [this message]
2010-02-17 23:52         ` martin f krafft
2010-02-18  0:39           ` Ben Gamari
2010-02-18  1:58             ` martin f krafft
2010-02-18  2:19               ` Ben Gamari
2010-02-18  2:48                 ` nested tag trees (was: Mail in git) martin f krafft
2010-02-18  4:32                   ` martin f krafft
     [not found]                   ` <1266463007-sup-8777@ben-laptop>
2010-02-18  4:34                     ` martin f krafft
     [not found]                     ` <20100218034613.GD1991@lapse.rw.madduck.net>
2010-02-18  4:44                       ` Ben Gamari
2010-02-18  4:59                         ` martin f krafft
2010-02-18  5:10                           ` Ben Gamari
2010-02-19  0:31                             ` martin f krafft
2010-02-19  9:52                               ` Michal Sojka
2010-02-19 14:27                                 ` Ben Gamari
2010-02-17 23:56   ` Mail in git Stewart Smith
2010-02-18  1:01     ` Ben Gamari
2010-02-18  2:00       ` martin f krafft
2010-02-18  2:11         ` Git ancestry and sync problems (was: Mail in git) martin f krafft
2010-02-18  8:34           ` racin
2010-02-18 12:20             ` Jameson Rollins
2010-02-18 12:47             ` Ben Gamari
2010-02-18 23:23             ` martin f krafft

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