From: Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson@canonical.com>
To: Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>,
	Olivier Schwander <olivier.schwander@chadok.info>
Subject: Re: Undo tag operation?
In-Reply-To: <874o2g1vm9.fsf@servo.factory.finestructure.net>
References:
 <CAAGJhGABo5vPrfGK+694rujtmHOYCW0eKy63fqZR82SPHZnX1A@mail.gmail.com>
	<874o2g3nka.fsf@servo.factory.finestructure.net>
	<20110720200247.GB24284@ns27638.ovh.net>
	<874o2g1vm9.fsf@servo.factory.finestructure.net>
User-Agent: Notmuch/0.6.1+mwhudson+1714~natty1 (http://notmuchmail.org)
	Emacs/23.1.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:07:00 +1200
Message-ID: <87oc0o75ff.fsf@canonical.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Precedence: list

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:37:50 -0700, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:02:47 +0200, Olivier Schwander <olivier.schwander@chadok.info> wrote:
> > I wonder if it may be possible to create a journal of all the operations
> > on tags: a file where all the changes are registered, with a timestamp.
> > 
> > Two benefits:
> >  - going through the history to undo mistakes
> >  - being able to build a diff of two journals in order to synchronize db on multiple
> >    hosts
> 
> I'm having trouble finding the thread right now, but wasn't there just
> recently a discussion about just this (i.e. time-stamping tag
> operations)?  Unless there is a big performance hit, I'm starting to
> think this sounds like a good idea.
> 
> Being also to share tags alone would be super cool.

I think the discussion was on IRC, not the mailing list.  It would be
very cool :)

Cheers,
mwh