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+From: Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu>\r
+To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: [PATCH 11/11] lib: Remove unnecessary thread linking steps when using\r
+ ghost messages\r
+Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 10:19:18 -0400\r
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+From: Austin Clements <amdragon@mit.edu>\r
+\r
+Previously, it was necessary to link new messages to children to work\r
+around some (though not all) problems with the old metadata-based\r
+approach to stored thread IDs. With ghost messages, this is no longer\r
+necessary, so don't bother with child linking when ghost messages are\r
+in use.\r
+---\r
+ lib/database.cc | 21 +++++++++++++++++----\r
+ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/lib/database.cc b/lib/database.cc\r
+index ff6a7f6..4655f59 100644\r
+--- a/lib/database.cc\r
++++ b/lib/database.cc\r
+@@ -2167,10 +2167,23 @@ _notmuch_database_link_message (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,\r
+ if (status)\r
+ goto DONE;\r
+ \r
+- status = _notmuch_database_link_message_to_children (notmuch, message,\r
+- &thread_id);\r
+- if (status)\r
+- goto DONE;\r
++ if (! (notmuch->features & NOTMUCH_FEATURE_GHOSTS)) {\r
++ /* In general, it shouldn't be necessary to link children,\r
++ * since the earlier indexing of those children will have\r
++ * stored a thread ID for the missing parent. However, prior\r
++ * to ghost messages, these stored thread IDs were NOT\r
++ * rewritten during thread merging (and there was no\r
++ * performant way to do so), so if indexed children were\r
++ * pulled into a different thread ID by a merge, it was\r
++ * necessary to pull them *back* into the stored thread ID of\r
++ * the parent. With ghost messages, we just rewrite the\r
++ * stored thread IDs during merging, so this workaround isn't\r
++ * necessary. */\r
++ status = _notmuch_database_link_message_to_children (notmuch, message,\r
++ &thread_id);\r
++ if (status)\r
++ goto DONE;\r
++ }\r
+ \r
+ /* If not part of any existing thread, generate a new thread ID. */\r
+ if (thread_id == NULL) {\r
+-- \r
+2.1.0\r
+\r