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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Austin Clements <amdragon@mit.edu>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: Fix endless upgrade problem\r
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+Austin Clements <amdragon@mit.edu> writes:\r
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+> 48db8c8 introduced a disagreement between when\r
+> notmuch_database_needs_upgrade returned TRUE and when\r
+> notmuch_database_upgrade actually performed an upgrade. As a result,\r
+> if a database had a version less than 3, but no new features were\r
+> required, notmuch new would call notmuch_database_upgrade to perform\r
+> an upgrade, but notmuch_database_upgrade would return immediately\r
+> without updating the database version. Hence, the next notmuch new\r
+> would do the same, and so on.\r
+>\r
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+Thanks for the quick fix.\r
+\r
+pushed,\r
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+d\r