Re: [PATCH 5/6] cli: add global option "--db-revision"

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Daniel Schoepe <daniel@schoepe.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] cli: add global option "--db-revision"\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
+>> +    ``--db-revision=UUID``\r
+>> +       Enforce that the database revision is UUID. This is useful to\r
+>> +       detect rollover in modification counts on messages. You can\r
+>> +       find this UUID in the first column of output from\r
+>> +       ``notmuch count --output=modifications``\r
+>\r
+> I'm not sure if the wording here is entirely clear. When reading this\r
+> the first time, to me it sounded like it might give you a view of the\r
+> database from when the revision was UUID. Maybe we can clarify here that\r
+> this will result in notmuch exiting if the revision is not matched.\r
+\r
+Sure, no problem with expanding what "Enforce" means. Some improvment of\r
+the names as discussed in a previous message might help here also.\r
+\r
+d\r