David confirms below.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Does Notmuch employ a '.noupdate'-like feature?
Date: 	Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:54:34 +0200
From: 	David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: 	Johnny Utahh <notmuchmail.org@johnnyutahh.com>, 
notmuchmail.org@johnnyutahh.com



Johnny Utahh<notmuchmail.org@johnnyutahh.com>  writes:

> On 7/14/15, 2:32 AM, David Bremner wrote:
>> Johnny Utahh<notmuchmail.org@johnnyutahh.com>  writes:
>>
>>> Does Notmuch employ a '.noupdate'-like feature?  Details:
>>>https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/22
>>>
>> Maybe new.ignore (man notmuch-config) can serve roughly the same
>> purpose.
>
> Thanks. Will files and directories that were previously 'notmuch new'
> searched and newly-assigned to new.ignore still be indexed?

Yes, this only affects the operation of "notmuch new"

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