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From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
To: "Ciprian Dorin\, Craciun" <ciprian.craciun@gmail.com>,
	notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: `notmuch setup` replaces `~/.notmuch-config` instead of truncating it
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:09:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjz1dr0j.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikKiKC716H+ddF0Q5T0xc=vGHHOVroLRwzO3ujV@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:33:30 +0200, "Ciprian Dorin, Craciun" <ciprian.craciun@gmail.com> wrote:
>     First congratulations for the nice software!

Thanks so much! Welcome to notmuch.

>     So my question is: is this behaviour (of deleting the file and
> creating a new one) deliberate? If not, could it be fixed (I could
> provide a patch) to just update the file in place?

Daniel gave the perfect answer later in the thread. It is intentional to
replace the file with a new, complete version, (to avoid loss/corruption
of the file if "notmuch setup" is interrupted). But we should fix this
to replace the target of any symlinks.

-Carl

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carl.d.worth@intel.com

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-16 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-16 13:33 `notmuch setup` replaces `~/.notmuch-config` instead of truncating it Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
2010-11-16 13:38 ` Jameson Rollins
2010-11-16 15:38   ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2010-11-16 19:09 ` Carl Worth [this message]
2010-11-16 20:26   ` Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
2010-11-16 20:37     ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2010-11-16 20:42       ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2010-11-16 22:17         ` Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
2010-11-16 22:16       ` Ciprian Dorin, Craciun

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