On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:36:51 +0200, Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> wrote:
> From: Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name>
>
> Flesh out what ``notmuch restore --accumulate'' is supposed to do. Its tests
> are currently XFAILed; the functionality will be added in another patch.
>
I was looking at these patches and it occured to me that a
generalization like
notmuch restore --replace=ALL current behaviour and default
notmuch restore --replace=NONE proposed --accumulate behaviour
notmuch restore --replace=<regex> delete all tags matching regex
before adding tags from file.
would solve your use case (some kind of merging?) and the case of
restoring a namespace of tags like "notmuch\..*"
Let the bikeshedding begin!
d