From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD491431FBC for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:47:39 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.083 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.083 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.898, BAYES_40=-0.185] autolearn=ham Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fGou8zoGn3Hz for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:47:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-qy0-f187.google.com (mail-qy0-f187.google.com [209.85.221.187]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29320431FAE for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:47:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by qyk17 with SMTP id 17so1283309qyk.2 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:47:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:content-type:cc:subject:from :to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:user-agent :content-transfer-encoding; bh=DXjOcoXa1xnMfX2ZhQo1yK/HZEV2RrtJCUDqNG8Lmg8=; b=Evw8vezHlMmQWvQsM1YdLvVbAl6jH7w4pONZ083GZ83dfEwnSo7ypbi9JpP/6HsG+X x6yqBfd1TZXmtD4cZbt20LElj6DQ8njnrEaE9WEc84Xwp7NuHWK3BrD/07PY19ygZ+1r edjPUPZ//c51F9EoE4gSkljCxS2qWVzkimM1o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=content-type:cc:subject:from:to:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:user-agent:content-transfer-encoding; b=U9g83BoHl1CI12BkKGXjcVl/6jicBNTntSPsZ6YH166M8JDXNchAekMkAW7ofgeE/i /GglwFmHfuRbKY6Lt4o9T+7y0SZCFyHGRSZaDefY1Lg1RET4oastd0+/3nxEEgsqLt4f E1MbYOvlKLyaA6GZ5gLKlx1miGlNxX5JdPS8s= Received: by 10.224.91.196 with SMTP id o4mr2444306qam.213.1266497258427; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:47:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (pool-96-236-125-203.spfdma.east.verizon.net [96.236.125.203]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 8sm1736834qwj.31.2010.02.18.04.47.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:47:37 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 From: Ben Gamari To: racin In-reply-to: <899270357.3379251266482068203.JavaMail.root@zimbra1-e1.priv.proxad.net> References: <899270357.3379251266482068203.JavaMail.root@zimbra1-e1.priv.proxad.net> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:47:35 -0500 Message-Id: <1266497097-sup-6128@ben-laptop> User-Agent: Sup/git Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: martin f krafft , notmuch Subject: Re: Git ancestry and sync problems (was: Mail in git) X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:47:40 -0000 Excerpts from racin's message of Thu Feb 18 03:34:28 -0500 2010: > > ----- "martin f krafft" a écrit : > > > Except I fear that as soon as we allow manipulation of the local > > store, we'll potentially run into this problem: > > > > http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2010/001114.html > > id:20100112045152.GA15275@lapse.rw.madduck.net > > I don't understand the problem. Why not just letting all "inbox" mails in a regular Maildir, > and use git only when they have been explicit archived? This way, mails are added to git only if we want > to save them, and we rarely (never?) need to remove mail from the git store. Deleting mail > is also much easier to do from the maildir. This mail flow would make much more sense to me. Yes, this would certainly be much easier, but by doing this you also pass up on using much of git's utility (although as we've discovered, using it is non-trivial). In particular, I am very interested in using git to keep my mail and tags synchronized across multiple machines. This is an issue that I've always struggled with: While I dislike having my mail tied to my laptop, there is no good two-way solution for synchronizing maildirs and metadata across machines. - Ben