[notmuch] Git ancestry and sync problems (was: Mail in git)

[Jameson Rollins]

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:34:28 +0100 (CET), racin at free.fr wrote:
> I don't understand the problem. Why not just letting all "inbox" mails in a regular Maildir, 
> and use git only when they have been explicit archived? This way, mails are added to git only if we want
> to save them, and we rarely (never?) need to remove mail from the git store. Deleting mail
> is also much easier to do from the maildir. This mail flow would make much more sense to me.

I agree that this sounds much simpler and far easier to implement.  Once
you're passed any deletion phase, using git sounds much more sensible.

jamie.
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