From: "Ciprian Dorin, Craciun" <ciprian.craciun@gmail.com>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: `notmuch setup` replaces `~/.notmuch-config` instead of truncating it
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:33:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikKiKC716H+ddF0Q5T0xc=vGHHOVroLRwzO3ujV@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hello all!
First congratulations for the nice software! I hardly wait for a
notmuch native (i.e. libnotmuch) and curses client (like `ner`) to
become more stable, and thus I'll be able to ditch GMail. :) But until
then a small glitch...
While upgrading from notmuch 0.4 to 0.5, I've re-runned `notmuch
config` as suggested in the release email.
But in my particular case `~/.notmuch-config` is symlinked to an
applications configuration directory which is versioned. Thus I've
expected than when notmuch updates the config, it opens it for
read-write, but with the truncation flag (which as a consequence would
have modified the symlinked file). But instead it deleted the symlink,
and replaced it with a newly created file (thus breaking my custom
configuration backup system.)
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?
Thanks,
Ciprian.
next reply other threads:[~2010-11-16 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-16 13:33 Ciprian Dorin, Craciun [this message]
2010-11-16 13:38 ` `notmuch setup` replaces `~/.notmuch-config` instead of truncating it Jameson Rollins
2010-11-16 15:38 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2010-11-16 19:09 ` Carl Worth
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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