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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/11] lib: Implement upgrade to ghost messages feature\r
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+Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu> writes:\r
+> + if (new_features & NOTMUCH_FEATURE_GHOSTS) {\r
+> + t_end = db->metadata_keys_end ("thread_id_");\r
+> + for (t = db->metadata_keys_begin ("thread_id_"); t != t_end; ++t)\r
+> + ++total;\r
+> + }\r
+\r
+It would be nice to have the comment below, or something like it, for\r
+the loop above.\r
+\r
+> + /* Perform metadata upgrades. */\r
+> +\r
+> + /* Prior to NOTMUCH_FEATURE_GHOSTS, thread IDs for missing\r
+> + * messages were stored as database metadata. Change these to\r
+> + * ghost messages.\r
+> + */\r