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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] test: Add compact test\r
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+Hi Ben;\r
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+Thanks for writing these tests. I have some proposed changes. I didn't\r
+understand why you called notmuch search twice, and for whatever reason\r
+test_begin_subtest doesn't pair up with test_expect_success\r
+\r
+diff --git a/test/compact b/test/compact\r
+index 54e85ab..5bb5cea 100755\r
+--- a/test/compact\r
++++ b/test/compact\r
+@@ -10,11 +10,9 @@ notmuch tag +tag1 \*\r
+ notmuch tag +tag2 subject:Two\r
+ notmuch tag -tag1 +tag3 subject:Three\r
+ \r
+-test_begin_subtest "Compacting"\r
+-notmuch compact\r
+-test_expect_success "compact" "notmuch compact"\r
++test_expect_success "Running compact" "notmuch compact"\r
+ \r
+-notmuch search \*\r
++test_begin_subtest "Compact preserves database"\r
+ output=$(notmuch search \* | notmuch_search_sanitize)\r
+ test_expect_equal "$output" "\\r
+ thread:XXX 2001-01-05 [1/1] Notmuch Test Suite; One (inbox tag1 unread)\r
+@@ -25,7 +23,6 @@ test_begin_subtest "Restoring backup"\r
+ rm -Rf ${TEST_TMPDIR}/mail/xapian\r
+ mv ${TEST_TMPDIR}/mail/xapian.old ${TEST_TMPDIR}/mail/xapian\r
+ \r
+-notmuch search \*\r
+ output=$(notmuch search \* | notmuch_search_sanitize)\r
+ test_expect_equal "$output" "\\r
+ thread:XXX 2001-01-05 [1/1] Notmuch Test Suite; One (inbox tag1 unread)\r