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24 From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
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25 To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
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26 Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] cli/count: add --output=modifications
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54 On Tue, Aug 11 2015, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
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56 > Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:
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58 >> Currently, `notmuch count` outputs lines that contain just one integer;
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59 >> this changes this by introducing output with uuid ([0-9a-f-]) and integer
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60 >> delimited by tab character.
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62 >> To put it lightly, this looks "inconsistent" and don't please my aesthetic
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65 >> One option (being it worse or better) could be that by default only
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66 >> lastmod value is printed and with separate option it is prefixed with
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67 >> database UUID (in every --output option).
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69 > Can you think of any use case for the uuid with the other count outputs?
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70 > It feels pretty artificial to me.
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72 I don't... I just thought something consistent to be used w/ notmuch count...
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74 > Another option is to make a "notmuch metadata" command. I'm not really
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75 > sure about the syntax, but perhaps a uuid option makes more sense
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78 > notmuch metadata --with-uuid lastmod
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80 or notmuch metadata key [key [key]], then (currently) we could have:
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82 $ notmuch metadata uuid
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83 $ notmuch metadata lastmod
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84 $ notmuch metadata uuid lastmod
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85 $ notmuch metadata lastmod uuid
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87 Now we can bikeshed whether this is good idea -- and what to do (and when)
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88 if unknown key is used in request...
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93 > I'm pretty convinced that we need report uuid and lastmod together (at
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94 > least optionally). I'm less sure we need a full get/set interface for
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95 > metadata, since people with that use case could use xapian-metadata.
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