On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:27:53 -0700, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:

> I'm not sure why this is needed, since it seems to me that the whole
> argument for tagging entire threads is that the individual messages are
> *not* distinguishable from the thread.

The problem is that "notmuch search foo and not bar" will return all
threads containing a message satisfying "foo" and a message satisfying 
"not bar". This makes 

     notmuch search tag:notmuch::patch and not notmuch::pushed

notmuch use.

> Please do *not* remove the ::patch tag.  

No, I don't suggest/intend to remove the ::patch tag, only a ::unresolved tag,
since there seems to be no nice way to search for (not notmuch::resolved).

>  The addition of something
> From a set of "resolution" tags (::pushed, ::applied, ::obsolete,
> ::rejected, etc.) should indicate resolution of the issue.

Here I think we agree.