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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Daniel Schoepe <daniel@schoepe.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] lib: Add per-message last modification tracking\r
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+Daniel Schoepe <daniel@schoepe.org> writes:\r
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+> On Fri, 05 Jun 2015 19:28 +0200, David Bremner wrote:\r
+>> + /* Prior to NOTMUCH_FEATURE_LAST_MOD, messages did not\r
+>> + * track modification revisions. Give all messages a\r
+>> + * revision of 1.\r
+>> + */\r
+>> + if (new_features & NOTMUCH_FEATURE_LAST_MOD)\r
+>> + _notmuch_message_upgrade_last_mod (message);\r
+>> [..]\r
+>> +/* Upgrade a message to support NOTMUCH_FEATURE_LAST_MOD. The caller\r
+>> + * must call _notmuch_message_sync. */\r
+>> +void\r
+>> +_notmuch_message_upgrade_last_mod (notmuch_message_t *message)\r
+>> +{\r
+>> + /* _notmuch_message_sync will update the last modification\r
+>> + * revision; we just have to ask it to. */\r
+>> + message->modified = TRUE;\r
+>> +}\r
+>> +\r
+>\r
+> The comment in the first part says that message without LAST_MOD get a\r
+> revision of 1, but as far as I can tell, _notmuch_message_sync will\r
+> actually put the next revision number on the message. If this is what's\r
+> happening, either the comment or the behavior should be changed,\r
+> depending on what's intended.\r
+\r
+I think the behaviour is OK, but you're correct the comment is\r
+wrong. I'll see if Austin has any comment on that. I guess it would be\r
+harmless to initialize upgraded messages to some low revision number,\r
+but I don't see the benefit.\r