ignore folders patch?

ignore folders patch?

[Fabio Zanini]

Hi!

This is my first message to the list. In 2010 a patch was developed that
enabled notmuch new to ignore certain subdirectories of the mail folder:

http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2010/003170.html

However, I cannot find any reference to it in the git history, and it
does not seem to have been implemented.

This feature seems to be relevant, what would you think of reviving it
and including it into the codebase? I could try to update the patch
myself.

Cheers,
Fabio

Re: ignore folders patch?

[Tomi Ollila]

On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:32:12 +0100, Fabio Zanini <fabio.zanini@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> This is my first message to the list. In 2010 a patch was developed that
> enabled notmuch new to ignore certain subdirectories of the mail folder:
> 
> http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2010/003170.html
> 
> However, I cannot find any reference to it in the git history, and it
> does not seem to have been implemented.
> 
> This feature seems to be relevant, what would you think of reviving it
> and including it into the codebase? I could try to update the patch
> myself.

  I also attempted to do something about it; check

   id:"1315949524-4948-1-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi"

Partly due to these issues did organized my mail directories
a bit differently and dropped this thing...

> Cheers,
> Fabio

Tomi

Re: ignore folders patch?

[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema]

Hi,

On 2012-01-22T13:32:12 EET, Fabio Zanini wrote:

 > Hi!
 >
 > This is my first message to the list. In 2010 a patch was developed that
 > enabled notmuch new to ignore certain subdirectories of the mail folder:
 >
 > http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2010/003170.html
 >
 > However, I cannot find any reference to it in the git history, and it
 > does not seem to have been implemented.
 >
 > This feature seems to be relevant, what would you think of reviving it
 > and including it into the codebase? I could try to update the patch
 > myself.

I don't think my patch made it either:
 http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2010/001103.html

which support ignoring directories by dropping a '.noindex' file in them. I've
been happily using that with the "mu" program for years.

Best wishes,
Dirk.

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Re: ignore folders patch?

[Pieter Praet]

On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:32:12 +0100, Fabio Zanini <fabio.zanini@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> This is my first message to the list. In 2010 a patch was developed that
> enabled notmuch new to ignore certain subdirectories of the mail folder:
> 
> http://notmuchmail.org/pipermail/notmuch/2010/003170.html
> 
> However, I cannot find any reference to it in the git history, and it
> does not seem to have been implemented.
> 
> This feature seems to be relevant, what would you think of reviving it
> and including it into the codebase? I could try to update the patch
> myself.
> 

Here's an old list of patches/discussions re excluding files/folders:

  id:"AANLkTikddX=fYiDmnN2Jx3ERcJndw=80+5_07=M45MQ=@mail.gmail.com"

... and Tomi Ollila has recently submitted another implementation,
which hasn't nearly received the attention it deserves:

  id:"1315949524-4948-4-git-send-email-tomi.ollila@iki.fi"

... presumably since most people who require this functionality have
settled on hardcoding some directory names @ `add_files_recursive' in
"notmuch-config.c".

A more flexible approach would be most welcome though, so +1 !


> Cheers,
> Fabio
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Peace

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Pieter