Inheriting tags from parent

[Michal Nazarewicz]

> Quoth Michal Nazarewicz on Aug 03 at  4:29 pm:
>> I've just started using notmuch and am wondering if there is a way to
>> make message “inherit” some of the tags from messages they are written
>> in replay to (or in general are part of the same thread).
>> 
>> I'm mostly thinking about a “mute” tag which I'd add to messages that
>> are completely uninteresting to me.  With the “inheritance” mechanism,
>> I'd be able to make notmuch automatically mute all the replays within
>> the same thread.

Austin Clements <amdragon at MIT.EDU> writes:
> I have a hacky and now ancient patch series that you're welcome to try
> porting to a recent notmuch on the inheritable-tags-hack branch at
>   http://awakening.csail.mit.edu/git/notmuch.git
> One general problem with this approach is dealing with threads whose
> messages arrive or are ingested out of order.  I don't think this is
> an insurmountable problem, but my patch certainly doesn't handle it
> correctly.

I'll keep that in mind, but lack of time, won't probably let me play
with it...

> There are also several other solutions to "mute" tags around.  For
> example, some people use a post-new hook to search for threads that
> contain at least one mute tag and then feed these thread IDs back in
> to notmuch tag to add the mute tag to everything in the thread.  I
> believe this is also the approach used by the afew tagging system for
> "killed" threads.

Yeah, that's what I'm doing now.  Basically “notmuch search
--output=threads is:mute” and then join all the lines with “or” to
finally do “notmuch tag +mute <threads>”.  I was, however, hoping for
something more dedicated.

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