From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: notmuch reindex wipes existing tags
Date: Mon, 04 May 2020 07:30:38 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wo5sf0vl.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1588577150-ner-4.226@TPL520>
Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de@gmail.com> writes:
> Ran notmuch reindex.
> And now all custom tags were wiped, especially attachments-extracted.
> I now can't see if the pdf of a certain message was already saved.
> This is 3 years of 5 newspapers a weak. I must delete the files
> and re-extract them.
>
> I did not expect that, especially after reading the man page
> which doesn't warn about resetting tags.
>
> So here my question:
> Is this a bug or a feature?
It sounds like a bug. But it's a bug that the test suite specifically
tests for ("reindex preserves tags" in T700-reindex.sh) so I'm not sure
what is going on. To eliminate the obvious, does the test suite pass for
you?
d
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-04 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-04 7:25 notmuch reindex wipes existing tags Franz Fellner
2020-05-04 10:30 ` David Bremner [this message]
2020-05-04 12:39 ` Franz Fellner
2020-05-04 13:39 ` David Bremner
2020-05-04 14:00 ` [PATCH 1/2] test: known broken test for reindex tag preservation David Bremner
2020-05-04 14:00 ` [PATCH 2/2] lib: replace STRNCMP_LITERAL in __message_remove_indexed_terms David Bremner
2020-05-04 15:16 ` Franz Fellner
2020-05-04 14:16 ` [PATCH 1/2] test: known broken test for reindex tag preservation Tomi Ollila
2020-05-04 22:47 ` David Bremner
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