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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Peter Wang <novalazy@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/10] cli: add insert --must-index option\r
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+Peter Wang <novalazy@gmail.com> writes:\r
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+> This option causes notmuch insert to fail (with exit code 3) on failure\r
+> to index the message, or failure to set the tags on the message, or if\r
+> closing (flushing) the database fails. Failure to sync tags to flags\r
+> has no effect.\r
+\r
+I don't really understand why it's OK to ignore failure to sync\r
+flags. Can you explain? Or point to a previous discussion if we already\r
+went through this?\r
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+d\r