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+ Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:31:42 -0700 (PDT)\r
+From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>\r
+To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>,\r
+ Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net>,\r
+ Notmuch list <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>\r
+Subject: Re: WARNING: database upgrade coming\r
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+Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 23:31:40 +0200\r
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+On Mon, 17 Mar 2014, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:\r
+> Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> writes:\r
+>\r
+>>\r
+>> FWIW it should always be safe to interrupt the upgrade; I know we don't\r
+>> inform the user about this.\r
+>>\r
+>\r
+> With that in mind, would it be reasonable/worthwhile to print a 5 second (or so)\r
+> countdown before running the upgrade? But then people who run it\r
+> non-interactively would still automagically get the upgrade, just 5\r
+> seconds later.\r
+\r
+Something like this? Just insert text that makes sense to the user. ;)\r
+\r
+Jani.\r
+\r
+\r
+diff --git a/notmuch-new.c b/notmuch-new.c\r
+index 82acf695353e..f256a3142eb0 100644\r
+--- a/notmuch-new.c\r
++++ b/notmuch-new.c\r
+@@ -989,8 +989,11 @@ notmuch_new_command (notmuch_config_t *config, int argc, char *argv[])\r
+ return EXIT_FAILURE;\r
+ \r
+ if (notmuch_database_needs_upgrade (notmuch)) {\r
+- if (add_files_state.verbosity >= VERBOSITY_NORMAL)\r
++ if (add_files_state.verbosity >= VERBOSITY_NORMAL) {\r
+ printf ("Welcome to a new version of notmuch! Your database will now be upgraded.\n");\r
++ sleep (5);\r
++ printf ("Now really.\n");\r
++ }\r
+ gettimeofday (&add_files_state.tv_start, NULL);\r
+ notmuch_database_upgrade (notmuch,\r
+ add_files_state.verbosity >= VERBOSITY_NORMAL ? upgrade_print_progress : NULL,\r