[PATCH v2 08/10] cli: add insert --must-index option

[David Bremner]

Peter Wang <novalazy at gmail.com> writes:

> This option causes notmuch insert to fail (with exit code 3) on failure
> to index the message, or failure to set the tags on the message, or if
> closing (flushing) the database fails.  Failure to sync tags to flags
> has no effect.

I don't really understand why it's OK to ignore failure to sync
flags. Can you explain? Or point to a previous discussion if we already
went through this?

d