From a5e0dccf3ed57403b780a855df2533ed8ffb4edb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2016 18:44:19 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] lib: document config metadata

---
 1f/8d551d583e3521450670c0933575e37dd49014 | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 81 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 1f/8d551d583e3521450670c0933575e37dd49014

diff --git a/1f/8d551d583e3521450670c0933575e37dd49014 b/1f/8d551d583e3521450670c0933575e37dd49014
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..00bd11b73
--- /dev/null
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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
+To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: document config metadata
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+On Sun, Jun 05 2016, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
+
+> This probably should have been part of 3458e3c89c, but I missed it.
+> ---
+>  lib/database.cc | 8 ++++++++
+>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
+>
+> diff --git a/lib/database.cc b/lib/database.cc
+> index 9630000..ecf576f 100644
+> --- a/lib/database.cc
+> +++ b/lib/database.cc
+> @@ -185,6 +185,14 @@ typedef struct {
+>   *			generated is 1 and the value will be
+>   *			incremented for each thread ID.
+>   *
+> + *      C*              metadata keys starting with C indicate
+> + *                      configuration data. It can be managed with the
+> + *                      n_database_*config* API.  There is a convention
+> + *			of hierarchical keys separated by '.' (e.g.
+
+tabs vs spaces... which wins???!!!
+
+> + *			query.notmuch stores the value for the named
+> + *			query 'notmuch'), but it is not enforced by the
+> + *			API.
+> + *
+>   * Obsolete metadata
+>   * -----------------
+>   *
+> -- 
+> 2.8.1
-- 
2.26.2