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 37536431FC3 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 19:26:38 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] autolearn=disabled 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 etQPIyudoeDl for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 19:26:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yantan.tethera.net (yantan.tethera.net [199.188.72.155]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7C1C8431FBC for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 19:26:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from remotemail by yantan.tethera.net with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WRY7K-0008Oq-EI for notmuch@notmuchmail.org; Sat, 22 Mar 2014 23:26:30 -0300 Received: (nullmailer pid 2935 invoked by uid 1000); Sun, 23 Mar 2014 02:26:26 -0000 From: David Bremner To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: conservative database upgrade control Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 23:26:11 -0300 Message-Id: <1395541573-2417-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.0 In-Reply-To: <87bnx4jyyp.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> References: <87bnx4jyyp.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> 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: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 02:26:38 -0000 Here is a conservative approach that doesn't require a lot of new code. The advantage over a command line argument is that those who prefer the current setup are only irritated once. Several of the other ideas require adding heuristics to e.g. test if notmuch is running in a terminal or that there is enough diskspace. Those sound hard to test.