Re: [PATCH] allow to not sort the search results

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+From: "Sebastian Spaeth" <Sebastian@SSpaeth.de>\r
+To: Olly Betts <olly@survex.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow to not sort the search results\r
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+On 2010-04-16, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:\r
+> Olly was right in that even for "notmuch tag" we were sorting the\r
+> results by date before applying tag changes. I have slightly reworked my\r
+> patch to have notmuch tag avoid doing that. I also split up the patch in\r
+> 3 patches that do one thing each.\r
+> \r
+> The patches do:\r
+> 1: Introduce NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED\r
+> 2: Introduce notmuch search --sort=unsorted\r
+> 3: Make notmuch tag not sort results by date\r
+> \r
+> #2 is the one I am least sure about, I don't know if there is a use case\r
+> for notmuch search returning unsorted results. But 1 & 3 are useful at\r
+> least.\r
+\r
+> Patches 1-3 follow as reply to this one\r
+\r
+May I advocate patches 1 & 3 for inclusion in 0.3? I've been using this\r
+in my tree without problems. patch 2 is left to your judgement as to\r
+whether a "--sort=unsorted" is useful for notmuch search. (it will\r
+probably rather benefit from a --sort=relevance, I guess).\r
+\r
+Sebastian\r