Tilmann Singer <tils@tils.net> writes:

>
> With a reused ssh connection this is sufficiently fast for me (<2s).  If
> there is interest I can clean up the script of hardcoded paths etc. and
> put it on github.

Sure, sounds at least as good as what I am using. Also, syncmaildir
recently did something pretty annoying for upward compatibility, so in
the long term I'm interested in alternatives.

Maybe we should start a notmuchmail.org wiki page with the various
solutions on it.

> Synchronization of the notmuch tags database is only necessary when I
> switch between different client computers, which happens less
> frequently. Like David I have a dump file committed to git for that. I
> found it useful to sort the output before adding it to git, to avoid
> huge unreadable diffs:
>
> notmuch dump --format=batch-tag | sort > /path/to/notmuch.dump

same here.