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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net>, notmuch <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: Bug: notmuch new chokes on dangling symlinks and quits
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 12:43:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878uu2n17j.fsf@zancas.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140126131846.GA10844@boo.workgroup>

Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> writes:

>
> I consider this to be a bug.  Instead notmuch should simply
> ignore the symlink.
>

Since there is a test for specifically this behaviour, I'd have to say
it's a design decision you don't agree with, not a bug ;).

In any case, if there is just a few broken symlinks, and you want to
ignore them, you can add them the ignore= line in .notmuch-config

d

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-26 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-26 13:18 Bug: notmuch new chokes on dangling symlinks and quits Gregor Zattler
2014-01-26 16:43 ` David Bremner [this message]
2014-01-27  1:14   ` Gregor Zattler
2014-01-27 15:55     ` Eric
2014-01-27 17:40     ` David Bremner

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