Re: [PATCH] notmuch new: add a --in-directory option

[Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>]

I haven't thought about this as a patch yet, but wanted to point out
that it should probably skip the removal step if it's only scanning a
subdirectory.  Otherwise, messages that are moved out of the scanned
directory into some other may be considered deleted and get removed
from the database.

That aside, I'm curious what the use case for this is.

Quoth Mark Walters on Mar 06 at  8:58 pm:
> This patch adds a --in-directory=folder option to notmuch new which
> tells it to only check for new messages inside folder (relative to the
> database root)
> ---
> 
> NOTE This is only very lightly tested (but seems to work) so please
> make sure you backup the notmuch database before testing!
> 
> 
>  notmuch-new.c    |   10 +++++++++-
>  test/T050-new.sh |   15 +++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/notmuch-new.c b/notmuch-new.c
> index 8529fdd..d3526ac 100644
> --- a/notmuch-new.c
> +++ b/notmuch-new.c
> @@ -922,6 +922,8 @@ notmuch_new_command (notmuch_config_t *config, int argc, char *argv[])
>      notmuch_bool_t timer_is_active = FALSE;
>      notmuch_bool_t no_hooks = FALSE;
>      notmuch_bool_t quiet = FALSE, verbose = FALSE;
> +    char *directory = NULL;
> +    char *path = NULL;
>  
>      add_files_state.verbosity = VERBOSITY_NORMAL;
>      add_files_state.debug = FALSE;
> @@ -932,6 +934,7 @@ notmuch_new_command (notmuch_config_t *config, int argc, char *argv[])
>  	{ NOTMUCH_OPT_BOOLEAN,  &verbose, "verbose", 'v', 0 },
>  	{ NOTMUCH_OPT_BOOLEAN,  &add_files_state.debug, "debug", 'd', 0 },
>  	{ NOTMUCH_OPT_BOOLEAN,  &no_hooks, "no-hooks", 'n', 0 },
> +	{ NOTMUCH_OPT_STRING, &directory, "in-directory", 'i', 0  },
>  	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 }
>      };
>  
> @@ -1021,7 +1024,12 @@ notmuch_new_command (notmuch_config_t *config, int argc, char *argv[])
>  	timer_is_active = TRUE;
>      }
>  
> -    ret = add_files (notmuch, db_path, &add_files_state);
> +    if (directory)
> +	path = talloc_asprintf (config, "%s/%s", db_path, directory);
> +    else
> +	path = talloc_strdup (config, db_path);
> +
> +    ret = add_files (notmuch, path, &add_files_state);
>      if (ret)
>  	goto DONE;
>  
> diff --git a/test/T050-new.sh b/test/T050-new.sh
> index b7668ff..b8e68a3 100755
> --- a/test/T050-new.sh
> +++ b/test/T050-new.sh
> @@ -263,4 +263,19 @@ notmuch search --format=text0 --output=files --offset=1 --limit=1 '*' | xargs -0
>  output=$(NOTMUCH_NEW --quiet)
>  test_expect_equal "$output" ""
>  
> +test_begin_subtest "In-directory"
> +rm -rf "${MAIL_DIR}"/* "${MAIL_DIR}"/.notmuch
> +mkdir "${MAIL_DIR}"/def
> +mkdir "${MAIL_DIR}"/ghi
> +generate_message [dir]=def
> +generate_message [dir]=ghi
> +generate_message
> +
> +output=$(NOTMUCH_NEW --in-directory=def)
> +test_expect_equal "$output" "Added 1 new message to the database."
> +
> +test_begin_subtest "New after --in-directory"
> +output=$(NOTMUCH_NEW)
> +test_expect_equal "$output" "Added 2 new messages to the database."
> +
>  test_done