Re: multiple machine tagging

Subject: Re: multiple machine tagging

Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:49:16 +0100

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From: David Edmondson


On Thu, May 20 2010, David Edmondson wrote:
(Wow, was it really more than four years ago?)

> What's the current state of the art in merging tags from multiple
> machines?
>
> In my own case the contents of the mail store can be considered
> identical on the different machines. Automated tagging is mostly fine
> - it can just happen on each of the machines. Any hand-added tags are
> a problem, though.

Is there any significant change to this picture?

I've been backing up my tags using 'notmuch dump' and a simple "newest
wins" merge (so that I don't lose tags for messages that are not in the
database at the time of the dump) followed by git.

This is okay for a backup solution (I've needed it a couple of times!),
but not ideal for a multi-machine environment.

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