On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:
> Add --remove-all option to "notmuch tag" to remove all tags from the
> messages matching query before applying the tag changes. This allows
> removal of all tags and unconditional setting of the tags of a
> message:
>
> $ notmuch tag --remove-all id:foo@example.com
> $ notmuch tag --remove-all +foo +bar id:foo@example.com
>
> without having to resort to the complicated (and still quoting
> broken):
>
> $ notmuch tag $(notmuch search --output=tags '*' | sed 's/^/-/') \
>   id:foo@example.com
> $ notmuch tag $(notmuch search --output=tags '*' | sed 's/^/-/') \
>   +foo +bar id:foo@example.com

Just today there was another question on IRC about removing all tags,
and the reply from amdragon was along the lines of the above. This
series would make things so much easier... reviews, anyone? ;)

BR,
Jani.


> ---
>  notmuch-tag.c |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/notmuch-tag.c b/notmuch-tag.c
> index b2b22f7..e674215 100644
> --- a/notmuch-tag.c
> +++ b/notmuch-tag.c
> @@ -99,12 +99,15 @@ tag_query (void *ctx, notmuch_database_t *notmuch, const char *query_string,
>      notmuch_message_t *message;
>      int ret = NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS;
>  
> -    /* Optimize the query so it excludes messages that already have
> -     * the specified set of tags. */
> -    query_string = _optimize_tag_query (ctx, query_string, tag_ops);
> -    if (query_string == NULL) {
> -	fprintf (stderr, "Out of memory.\n");
> -	return 1;
> +    if (! (flags & TAG_FLAG_REMOVE_ALL)) {
> +	/* Optimize the query so it excludes messages that already
> +	 * have the specified set of tags. */
> +	query_string = _optimize_tag_query (ctx, query_string, tag_ops);
> +	if (query_string == NULL) {
> +	    fprintf (stderr, "Out of memory.\n");
> +	    return 1;
> +	}
> +	flags |= TAG_FLAG_PRE_OPTIMIZED;
>      }
>  
>      query = notmuch_query_create (notmuch, query_string);
> @@ -120,7 +123,7 @@ tag_query (void *ctx, notmuch_database_t *notmuch, const char *query_string,
>  	 notmuch_messages_valid (messages) && ! interrupted;
>  	 notmuch_messages_move_to_next (messages)) {
>  	message = notmuch_messages_get (messages);
> -	ret = tag_op_list_apply (message, tag_ops, flags | TAG_FLAG_PRE_OPTIMIZED);
> +	ret = tag_op_list_apply (message, tag_ops, flags);
>  	notmuch_message_destroy (message);
>  	if (ret != NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS)
>  	    break;
> @@ -187,6 +190,7 @@ notmuch_tag_command (void *ctx, int argc, char *argv[])
>      struct sigaction action;
>      tag_op_flag_t tag_flags = TAG_FLAG_NONE;
>      notmuch_bool_t batch = FALSE;
> +    notmuch_bool_t remove_all = FALSE;
>      FILE *input = stdin;
>      char *input_file_name = NULL;
>      int opt_index;
> @@ -202,6 +206,7 @@ notmuch_tag_command (void *ctx, int argc, char *argv[])
>      notmuch_opt_desc_t options[] = {
>  	{ NOTMUCH_OPT_BOOLEAN, &batch, "batch", 0, 0 },
>  	{ NOTMUCH_OPT_STRING, &input_file_name, "input", 'i', 0 },
> +	{ NOTMUCH_OPT_BOOLEAN, &remove_all, "remove-all", 0, 0 },
>  	{ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 }
>      };
>  
> @@ -224,6 +229,10 @@ notmuch_tag_command (void *ctx, int argc, char *argv[])
>  	    fprintf (stderr, "Can't specify both cmdline and stdin!\n");
>  	    return 1;
>  	}
> +	if (remove_all) {
> +	    fprintf (stderr, "Can't specify both --remove-all and --batch\n");
> +	    return 1;
> +	}
>      } else {
>  	tag_ops = tag_op_list_create (ctx);
>  	if (tag_ops == NULL) {
> @@ -235,7 +244,7 @@ notmuch_tag_command (void *ctx, int argc, char *argv[])
>  				    &query_string, tag_ops))
>  	    return 1;
>  
> -	if (tag_op_list_size (tag_ops) == 0) {
> +	if (tag_op_list_size (tag_ops) == 0 && ! remove_all) {
>  	    fprintf (stderr, "Error: 'notmuch tag' requires at least one tag to add or remove.\n");
>  	    return 1;
>  	}
> @@ -252,6 +261,9 @@ notmuch_tag_command (void *ctx, int argc, char *argv[])
>      if (notmuch_config_get_maildir_synchronize_flags (config))
>  	tag_flags |= TAG_FLAG_MAILDIR_SYNC;
>  
> +    if (remove_all)
> +	tag_flags |= TAG_FLAG_REMOVE_ALL;
> +
>      if (batch)
>  	ret = tag_file (ctx, notmuch, tag_flags, input);
>      else
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4