Re: [PATCH 4/4] NEWS: news for notmuch_directory_delete

Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] NEWS: news for notmuch_directory_delete

Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 17:24:42 +0300

To: Jani Nikula, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Tomi Ollila


On Sat, Oct 17 2015, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote:

> ---
>  NEWS | 13 +++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 9940f8185e82..c5417144b755 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -47,6 +47,19 @@ Library
>  The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
>  `notmuch_database_{open, create}`.
>  
> +New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
> +
> +  Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
> +  database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
> +  document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
> +  encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
> +  `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
> +  if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
> +  potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
> +  fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
> +  deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
> +  removal or rename.

LGTM (format).

> +
>  nmbug-status
>  ------------
>  
> -- 
> 2.1.4
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