Re: Mail archives in Git using ssoma

Subject: Re: Mail archives in Git using ssoma

Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 18:37:04 +0000

To: W. Trevor King

Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org

From: Eric Wong


"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 11:03:21AM -0800, W. Trevor King wrote:
> > Eric Wong has been working on some tools to store email in a Git
> > repository, and his client-side code is ssoma [1].  I wanted a bit
> > more metadata than the stock ssoma-mda [2], and ended up just
> > writing a ssoma-mda in Python [3]…

Btw, for public-inbox, I'm using git-fast-import now, so imports
are a bit faster and $GIT_DIR/ssoma.index is no longer used.
This was crucial for getting git@vger archives imported in
a reasonable time.

public-inbox-* still keeps ssoma.index up-to-date for backwards
compatibility with ssoma, and will probably do so until 2020 or
later (there'll be a few years of deprecation notices)

So I or someone else needs to update Perl ssoma to use fast-import at
some point, too; and I suggest your python version do the same.

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