One of the things that new (and old) users of notmuch often miss is a way to sync tags between hosts. muchsync exists, but it's a third party tool, and (if I understand correctly) it directly modifies the notmuch database. Meanwhile we ship a moderately complex python script called 'nmbug' which can be used to sync arbitrary tags between hosts. This series is my (first pass at an) attempt to promote nmbug to a notmuch subcommand "notmuch git". My plan is to replace my own homebrew "commit notmuch dump output to git" script with this new command; I think it may appeal to other users as well. As a bonus, it provides a simple (for the user) way to do incremental backups of the notmuch database.
I had to add a couple of caching tricks to make the script usable for my database, but it is now reasonably fast (say 20s) to commit a days worth of changes on my machine. There are still some rough edges, mainly due to the heritage of the script. Some I am aware of include: - the (new) man page is inadequate - notmuch git doesn't understand the common arguments to notmuch (--config and friends) - the defaults for prefix and git repo are wrong for most users. I was thinking about either a --nmbug argument to set the old defaults, or having the script recognize if it is invoked as nmbug. - There are a few too many global variables - I just remembered, MAX_LASTMOD is unused, leftover from a previous design for querying tags. One thing that not everyone will like is that this requires sexp queries in your version of notmuch. It's exactly the kind of application I had in mind when I built the sexp query parser (script generated queries), and the sexp queries actually allow fixing an escaping bug in the current nmbug _______________________________________________ notmuch mailing list -- notmuch@notmuchmail.org To unsubscribe send an email to notmuch-le...@notmuchmail.org