From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
To: Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>,
Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>,
notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Cc: tomi.ollila@iki.fi
Subject: Re: [DRAFT PATCH] notmuch new: do not ignore '.notmuch' in non-toplevel directories
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2014 10:22:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ha7hvqhg.fsf@trouble.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r46mgrxm.fsf@qmul.ac.uk>
Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com> writes:
> An alternative would be to ignore any .notmuch path with a xapian
> sub-directory. This would mean if a user indexed some subset of their
> mail before trying to index the whole thing they wouldn't accidentally
> index the old xapian database.
If you wanted to be fairly careful, perhaps test for
exists(".notmuch/.xapian/flintlock" or ".notmuch/.xapian/iamchert"), or
some other very specific test.
> I think the above was suggested by rlb on irc but I don't think it got
> any reply.
Not sure. Though I'm wondering if I may have suggested we could add a
notmuch specific token file, i.e. .notmuch/this-really-is-a-notmuch-dir,
which lead to someone else suggesting we could just use .xapian.
Of course broadly speaking, ".xapian" might be a legitimate maildir too,
but ".notmuch/.xapian" seems fairly unlikely.
In any case, while I might prefer a very narrow test (as long as it
wasn't unduly expensive), all of the proposed solutions would have
handled my situation.
Thanks
--
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-01 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-23 2:16 [BUG] notmuch excludes .notmuch anywhere in the tree Rob Browning
2014-02-23 19:18 ` [DRAFT PATCH] notmuch new: do not ignore '.notmuch' in non-toplevel directories Tomi Ollila
2014-02-23 22:22 ` Jani Nikula
2014-03-01 9:59 ` Mark Walters
2014-03-01 16:22 ` Rob Browning [this message]
2022-01-24 13:39 ` [BUG] notmuch excludes .notmuch anywhere in the tree David Bremner
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