Return-Path: X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 477956DE119D for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:14:00 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at cworth.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 1.24 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.24 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.156, SPF_NEUTRAL=0.652, URIBL_SBL=0.644, URIBL_SBL_A=0.1] autolearn=disabled Received: from arlo.cworth.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (arlo.cworth.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Xt58uRcuglTl for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:13:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guru.guru-group.fi (guru.guru-group.fi [46.183.73.34]) by arlo.cworth.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96B646DE0244 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:13:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guru.guru-group.fi (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by guru.guru-group.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id D95B810008D; Tue, 11 Aug 2015 23:13:42 +0300 (EEST) From: Tomi Ollila To: David Bremner , notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] cli/count: add --output=modifications In-Reply-To: <871tf98y0x.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca> References: <1439112285-6681-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net> <1439112285-6681-4-git-send-email-david@tethera.net> <871tf98y0x.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.20.2+60~g522a3d9 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.3.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: HhBM'cA~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 20:14:00 -0000 On Tue, Aug 11 2015, David Bremner wrote: > Tomi Ollila writes: > >> Currently, `notmuch count` outputs lines that contain just one integer; >> this changes this by introducing output with uuid ([0-9a-f-]) and integer >> delimited by tab character. >> >> To put it lightly, this looks "inconsistent" and don't please my aesthetic >> eye. >> >> One option (being it worse or better) could be that by default only >> lastmod value is printed and with separate option it is prefixed with >> database UUID (in every --output option). > > Can you think of any use case for the uuid with the other count outputs? > It feels pretty artificial to me. I don't... I just thought something consistent to be used w/ notmuch count... > Another option is to make a "notmuch metadata" command. I'm not really > sure about the syntax, but perhaps a uuid option makes more sense > there, so e.g. > > notmuch metadata --with-uuid lastmod or notmuch metadata key [key [key]], then (currently) we could have: $ notmuch metadata uuid $ notmuch metadata lastmod $ notmuch metadata uuid lastmod $ notmuch metadata lastmod uuid Now we can bikeshed whether this is good idea -- and what to do (and when) if unknown key is used in request... Tomi > I'm pretty convinced that we need report uuid and lastmod together (at > least optionally). I'm less sure we need a full get/set interface for > metadata, since people with that use case could use xapian-metadata. >