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27 From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
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28 To: Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net>, notmuch <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
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29 Subject: Re: Bug: notmuch new chokes on dangling symlinks and quits
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53 Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> writes:
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56 > * David Bremner <david@tethera.net> [26. Jan. 2014]:
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57 >> Gregor Zattler <telegraph@gmx.net> writes:
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58 >>> I consider this to be a bug. Instead notmuch should simply
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59 >>> ignore the symlink.
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62 >> Since there is a test for specifically this behaviour, I'd have to say
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63 >> it's a design decision you don't agree with, not a bug ;).
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65 > May I ask why this is so?
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68 Purely from memory (I wasn't involved, and didn't dig up the the
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71 - a common use case is linking different trees into one notmuch-index
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74 - if a subtree disappears (e.g. by a network failure), then the choices
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75 are stop the index or ignore the missing files.
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77 - in the latter case, all tags from "deleted" messages are lost
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79 So, a simple solution which avoids data loss is to abort the index
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82 A more complicated solution would be possible of course, but nobody
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83 proposed it (or more importantly, did it) yet.
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