On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 5:46 AM David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
>
> David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:
>
> >
> > I'm intrigued (and indeed I hadn't really thought about the degree to
> > which we were re-inventing git-fast-import and friends); however so far
> > my experiments did not get far enough to say anything conclusive.
> >
>
> I did manage to finish, about 70 minutes elapsed.
>
> Although you'r probably right that a file of tags is the right
> representation (it is what git-annex uses also), I think we'd need to
> define a custom merge driver to take unions of lists in the same way
> that git-annex does. Otherwise merging will be less automagic than it is
> now.

I'm not familiar with git-annex, I would need to see an example of
such merging happening.

One advantage of using the fast-import format is that it's easy to
change it, or support multiple formats.

In fact, the format could be specified in the URL, like
`nm::1:$HOME/mail` for the current notmuch-git format, and
`nm::2:$HOME/mail` for the new.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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