Re: [PATCH 01/18] cli: add stub for insert command

Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/18] cli: add stub for insert command

Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:15:56 -0400

To: Jameson Graef Rollins, Peter Wang, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> writes:
>
> This is an interesting series, but let me play devil's advocate for a
> moment: Why is this functionality needed?  What can this functionality
> do that notmuch new can't?  Or how is it better?  I feel like everything
> that this series does can be done with notmuch new, post-new hooks, and
> folder searches.  Does this makes things more efficient in some way?
>

One thing that Austin mentioned is that (roughly speaking) notmuch-new
has no good way of dealing with duplicate message id's, so that might be
another reason to integrate this functionality.

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