From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
To: notmuch <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Potential problem using Git for mail (was: Idea for storing tags)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:51:53 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100112045152.GA15275@lapse.rw.madduck.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1263267603-sup-302@elise>
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also sprach Scott Robinson <scott@quadhome.com> [2010.01.12.1644 +1300]:
> Then the whole structure is controlled via git.
> Conflict-resolution and sync comes for free.
I've just had a good think about this, also because the idea of
abandoning IMAP and using Git has been around for a while and
I have not really wrapped my head around it.
If the MDA delivers to Git, then potentially, you might get into
a situation where you cannot write your own changes back to the
repo. This is also a DoS scenario: I'll just keep sending you
e-mail, and if I manage to pass your mail filters, I'll basically
commit to your mail repository at regular intervals. Say those are
5 seconds. In order for you to write updates to the repo, e.g. to
update tags, then you would need to pull, rebase, and push all
within 5 seconds, for otherwise you'd try to push non-fast-forwards.
This a bit unrealistic, surely, but there's a real annoyance in it:
you'd have to pull/rebase/push until a push succeeds — until you
found a time window between pull and push during which the MDA
didn't write to the repo. This might take a long time. If this
happens in the background by Cron, it's not a real concern, but if
this becomes a UI issue, I wouldn't know how to handle it.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-12 4:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-11 22:19 Idea for storing tags martin f krafft
2010-01-12 3:44 ` Scott Robinson
2010-01-12 4:06 ` martin f krafft
2010-01-12 4:51 ` martin f krafft [this message]
2010-01-12 19:38 ` Potential problem using Git for mail (was: Idea for storing tags) Jameson Rollins
2010-01-12 19:55 ` martin f krafft
2010-01-14 8:12 ` Asheesh Laroia
2010-01-14 20:37 ` martin f krafft
2010-01-21 6:28 ` Asheesh Laroia
2010-01-25 0:46 ` Git as notmuch object store (was: Potential problem using Git for mail) martin f krafft
2010-01-25 5:19 ` Asheesh Laroia
2010-01-25 7:43 ` martin f krafft
2010-01-25 13:49 ` Sebastian Spaeth
2010-01-25 16:22 ` Mike Kelly
2010-01-25 21:46 ` tag dir proposal [was: Re: Git as notmuch object store] Jameson Rollins
2010-01-26 16:32 ` Scott Robinson
2010-01-26 17:03 ` Jameson Rollins
2010-01-28 5:12 ` martin f krafft
2010-01-28 5:28 ` James Westby
2010-01-28 5:34 ` martin f krafft
2010-01-28 6:22 ` James Westby
2010-01-28 9:55 ` martin f krafft
2010-01-28 5:10 ` martin f krafft
2010-01-28 12:32 ` Servilio Afre Puentes
2010-01-28 20:39 ` martin f krafft
2010-01-28 20:49 ` Ben Gamari
2010-01-28 21:11 ` martin f krafft
[not found] ` <1264713802-sup-620@ben-laptop>
[not found] ` <20100128221735.GE8942@lapse.rw.madduck.net>
2010-01-28 23:30 ` Ben Gamari
2010-01-28 21:16 ` Jed Brown
2010-01-25 19:49 ` Git as notmuch object store (was: Potential problem using Git for mail) martin f krafft
2010-01-27 9:00 ` Sebastian Spaeth
2010-02-15 0:51 ` Stewart Smith
2010-01-12 4:11 ` Idea for storing tags Scott Morrison
2010-01-13 1:24 ` martin f krafft
2010-01-13 5:39 ` Scott Morrison
2010-01-13 5:52 ` martin f krafft
2010-01-14 1:37 ` Carl Worth
2010-01-12 21:39 ` David A. Harding
2010-01-14 1:32 ` Carl Worth
2010-01-14 8:04 ` martin f krafft
2010-01-14 22:24 ` Carl Worth
2010-01-14 22:32 ` martin f krafft
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