From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: [PATCH 8/8] NEWS: news for notmuch_directory_delete
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:42:53 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1445114573-25561-9-git-send-email-david@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1445114573-25561-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net>
From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
---
NEWS | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6a33330..c544a8e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -88,6 +88,19 @@ Library
The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
`notmuch_database_{open, create}`.
+New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
+
+ Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
+ database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
+ document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
+ encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
+ `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
+ if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
+ potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
+ fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
+ deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
+ removal or rename.
+
Database revision tracking
Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
--
2.5.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-17 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-17 20:42 NEWS patches v2 David Bremner
2015-10-17 20:42 ` [PATCH 1/8] NEWS: news for initial revision tracking support (0.21) David Bremner
2015-10-17 20:42 ` [PATCH 2/8] NEWS: note some build system changes for 0.21 David Bremner
2015-10-17 20:42 ` [PATCH 3/8] NEWS: new count api / deprecated count/search functions " David Bremner
2015-10-17 20:42 ` [PATCH 4/8] NEWS: note some Emacs UI changes " David Bremner
2015-10-17 20:42 ` [PATCH 5/8] NEWS: nmbug-status supports sort order David Bremner
2015-10-17 20:42 ` [PATCH 6/8] NEWS: news for date:<expr>..! David Bremner
2015-10-17 20:42 ` [PATCH 7/8] NEWS: news for notmuch address --deduplicate option David Bremner
2015-10-17 20:42 ` David Bremner [this message]
2015-10-18 11:15 ` NEWS patches v2 Tomi Ollila
2015-10-18 12:14 ` Jani Nikula
2015-10-19 17:09 ` Tomi Ollila
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