Re: [notmuch] hack to retag a directory

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+Subject: Re: [notmuch] hack to retag a directory\r
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+At Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:39:32 -0400,\r
+david@tethera.net wrote:\r
+> I think this will be obsolete pretty soon when the equivalent is\r
+> built-in to notmuch, but in the mean time, here is a script that\r
+> somebody might find useful: retag a whole directory (recursively). I\r
+> don't claim it is nice in any way, but it seems usable for me, taking\r
+> about 5 seconds to retag a directory containing 1000 messages.\r
+\r
+Sigh. And of course the version I posted was broken. I put a fixed version at \r
+\r
+      http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=notmuch-scripts.git;a=blob_plain;f=tagdir;hb=HEAD\r
+\r
+You might, or might not also be interested in \r
+\r
+    http://pivot.cs.unb.ca/git/?p=notmuch-scripts.git;a=blob_plain;f=gitmuch;hb=HEAD\r
+\r
+which is the beginnings of how to keep tags in git (for syncing\r
+between machines).  Right now the notmuch restore step is the\r
+bottleneck, but Carl apparently knows how to speed 'notmuch restore'\r
+up.\r
+\r
+  d\r