"W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> writes: > > Sorry, I didn't phrase that very well. The notmuch docs (as of this > patch) explain that we don't commit if we're in an atomic block. The > Xapian docs also say that, *and* they say that if we're not in atomic > block the close *does* try to commit. I think that's worth mentioning > in our close docs. OK, I see what you mean. I think the fact that you have to close the notmuch database (when not using begin/end atomic) to get a commit is surprising for many people, so it would be nice to make that clearer somehow. d