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From: Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>
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On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:51:32 -0400, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
> I could see idea of excluding spam and trash folders from indexing being
> useful, but this has been sitting in the list for a few months without
> comment. Does that mean no-one but Tomi thinks the functionality is
> interesting? Or it just slipped by?

A while a go, I had hacked the code to add .git to the list of excluded
dirctories, and I have since just moved .git under .notmuch. I think
this ability would be useful.

  Tom