Hi Jason,

Thanks for the tip with git send-mail. I didn't really intend to
get this "patch" accepted. It was more that I feel bad asking for 
features all the time and as I'm not so comfortable with hacking
on the notmuch code I thought I'd ask if one could implement it like this.
Anyhow, attached you'll find a patch for the test and another for
the proposed change. Feel free to discard it :)
Best,
/p

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 08:58:45AM -0700, Jameson Graef Rollins wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:22:58 +0100, Patrick Totzke <patricktotzke@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I wodered why "notmuch search --format=json" doesn't provide the "date_relative" field for
> > results, as the show command does.
> > 
> > I'm not expert on notmuch internals but I got it working like this:
> 
> Hi, Patrick.  I think this is a very reasonable patch.  However, there
> are a couple of things you need to do to get this patch accepted.
> 
> First of all, you should send the patch to the list in a format that
> will allow it to be applied directly to a git repo.  In particular, it
> needs to include a good commit log message.  Look at using git send-mail
> to send it to the list, which will format it correctly.
> 
> Also, I'm quite sure this patch will require a couple of changes to the
> test suite.  You should submit a patch that changes the test suite to
> reflect the desired changes *first*, followed by the patch that fixes
> the issue.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> jamie.