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+From: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>\r
+To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] test: give unique timestamps to messages\r
+Message-ID: <20131209002753.GI8854@mit.edu>\r
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+Quoth David Bremner on Dec 08 at 11:52 pm:\r
+> The choice of decreasing timestamps is a hack which reduces the number\r
+> of existing tests which fail. This can be changed to increasing\r
+> if/when somebody wants update another 47 tests.\r
+> ---\r
+> test/excludes | 4 ++--\r
+> test/test-lib.sh | 2 +-\r
+> 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)\r
+> \r
+> diff --git a/test/excludes b/test/excludes\r
+> index f1ae9ea..8bbbc2d 100755\r
+> --- a/test/excludes\r
+> +++ b/test/excludes\r
+> @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ thread:XXX 2001-01-05 [1/2] Notmuch Test Suite; Not deleted reply (deleted inb\r
+> test_begin_subtest "Search, don't exclude \"deleted\" messages when --exclude=flag specified"\r
+> output=$(notmuch search --exclude=flag subject:deleted | notmuch_search_sanitize)\r
+> test_expect_equal "$output" "thread:XXX 2001-01-05 [1/1] Notmuch Test Suite; Not deleted (inbox unread)\r
+> -thread:XXX 2001-01-05 [1/2] Notmuch Test Suite; Not deleted reply (deleted inbox unread)"\r
+> +thread:XXX 2001-01-05 [1/2] Notmuch Test Suite; Deleted (deleted inbox unread)"\r
+> \r
+> test_begin_subtest "Search, don't exclude \"deleted\" messages from search if not configured"\r
+> notmuch config set search.exclude_tags\r
+> @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ ${matching_message_ids[5]}"\r
+> test_begin_subtest "Search, exclude=flag (thread summary)"\r
+> output=$(notmuch search --exclude=flag tag:test | notmuch_search_sanitize)\r
+> test_expect_equal "$output" "thread:XXX 2001-01-05 [0/6] Notmuch Test Suite; All messages excluded: single match: reply 2 (deleted inbox test unread)\r
+> -thread:XXX 2001-01-05 [0/6] Notmuch Test Suite; All messages excluded: double match: reply 4 (deleted inbox test unread)\r
+> +thread:XXX 2001-01-05 [0/6] Notmuch Test Suite; All messages excluded: double match: reply 2 (deleted inbox test unread)\r
+> thread:XXX 2001-01-05 [0/6] Notmuch Test Suite; Some messages excluded: single excluded match: reply 3 (deleted inbox test unread)\r
+> thread:XXX 2001-01-05 [1/6] Notmuch Test Suite; Some messages excluded: single non-excluded match: reply 4 (deleted inbox test unread)\r
+> thread:XXX 2001-01-05 [1/6] Notmuch Test Suite; No messages excluded: single match: reply 3 (inbox test unread)"\r
+> diff --git a/test/test-lib.sh b/test/test-lib.sh\r
+> index d238c66..792e477 100644\r
+> --- a/test/test-lib.sh\r
+> +++ b/test/test-lib.sh\r
+> @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ generate_message ()\r
+> fi\r
+> \r
+> if [ -z "${template[date]}" ]; then\r
+> - template[date]="Fri, 05 Jan 2001 15:43:57 +0000"\r
+> + template[date]=$(date -Ru -d@$((978709437 - gen_msg_cnt)))\r
+\r
+It would be worth adding a comment here to explain that the decreasing\r
+timestamp is a historical artifact, to save people the trouble of\r
+digging back in the log to figure out why it goes down.\r
+\r
+> fi\r
+> \r
+> additional_headers=""\r