Re: [PATCH 0/5] Store message modification times in the DB

Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Store message modification times in the DB

Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:34:49 +0000

To: Thomas Jost, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Edmondson


On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:11:40 +0100, Thomas Jost <schnouki@schnouki.net> wrote:
> This is a patch series I've been working on for some time in order to be
> able to sync my tags on several computers. I'm posting it now, but
> please consider it as a RFC rather than something that is ready to be
> pushed.
> 
> The basic idea is to the last time each message was modified, i.e. "the
> message was added to the DB", "a tag was added" or "a tag was removed".

Thomas, this is interesting. Do you have a (back of the envelope?)
design for how you will use this information to implement tag sync?

My gut feeling is that we need a log of when a change occurred rather
than the last modification time, but I haven't really thought that all
through properly.

dme.
-- 
David Edmondson, http://dme.org

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