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25 From: martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net>
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43 Subject: [notmuch] Potential problem using Git for mail (was: Idea for
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65 also sprach Scott Robinson <scott@quadhome.com> [2010.01.12.1644 +1300]:
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66 > Then the whole structure is controlled via git.
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67 > Conflict-resolution and sync comes for free.
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69 I've just had a good think about this, also because the idea of
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70 abandoning IMAP and using Git has been around for a while and
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71 I have not really wrapped my head around it.
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73 If the MDA delivers to Git, then potentially, you might get into
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74 a situation where you cannot write your own changes back to the
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75 repo. This is also a DoS scenario: I'll just keep sending you
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76 e-mail, and if I manage to pass your mail filters, I'll basically
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77 commit to your mail repository at regular intervals. Say those are
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78 5 seconds. In order for you to write updates to the repo, e.g. to
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79 update tags, then you would need to pull, rebase, and push all
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80 within 5 seconds, for otherwise you'd try to push non-fast-forwards.
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82 This a bit unrealistic, surely, but there's a real annoyance in it:
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83 you'd have to pull/rebase/push until a push succeeds =E2=80=94 until you
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84 found a time window between pull and push during which the MDA
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85 didn't write to the repo. This might take a long time. If this
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86 happens in the background by Cron, it's not a real concern, but if
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87 this becomes a UI issue, I wouldn't know how to handle it.
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90 martin | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/
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92 don't hate yourself in the morning -- sleep till noon.
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