On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:14:20 -0500, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote: >> I think Carl said he wanted to keep the ability to specify exactly >> where the database is stored, so if we could move away from something >> that makes any implicit assumptions about relative paths between the >> database and the maildir, then all should be ok. > > Well, I chose the relative-path assumptions intentionally. The idea is > that if I move my mail from ~/Mail to ~/mail then the .notmuch directory > moves with it and everything continues to work just fine. Yeah, having relative paths in the database is a really good thing, IMHO. I was pleasantly surprised that notmuch continued working after I moved my mail from one directory to another :-). -- Jan