[PATCH] Add notmuch-remove-duplicates.py script to contrib.

[Michal Nazarewicz]

>> On Tue, Sep 04 2012, Dmitry Kurochkin wrote:
>>> +class MailComparator:
>>> +    """Checks if mail files are duplicates."""
>>> +    def __init__(self, filename):
>>> +        self.filename = filename
>>> +        self.mail = self.readFile(self.filename)
>>> +
>>> +    def isDuplicate(self, filename):
>>> +        return self.mail == self.readFile(filename)
>>> +
>>> +    @staticmethod
>>> +    def readFile(filename):
>>> +        with open(filename) as f:
>>> +            data = ""
>>> +            while True:
>>> +                line = f.readline()
>>> +                for header in IGNORED_HEADERS:
>>> +                    if line.startswith(header):

> Michal Nazarewicz <mina86 at mina86.com> writes:
>> Case of headers should be ignored, but this does not ignore it.

On Tue, Sep 04 2012, Dmitry Kurochkin wrote:
> It does.

Wait, how?  If line is “received:” how does it starts with “Received:”?

>>> +            if os.path.realpath(comparator.filename) == os.path.realpath(filename):
>>> +                print "Message '%s' has filenames pointing to the
>>> same file: '%s' '%s'" % (msg.get_message_id(), comparator.filename,
>>> filename)
>>
>> So why aren't those removed?
>>
>
> Because it is the same file indexed twice (probably because of
> symlinks).  We do not want to remove the only message file.

Ah, right, with symlinks this is troublesome, but than again, we can
check if there is at least one non-symlink.  If there is, delete
everything else, if there is not, delete all but one arbitrarily chosen
symlink.

>>> +            elif comparator.isDuplicate(filename):
>>> +                os.remove(filename)
>>> +                duplicates_count += 1
>>> +            else:
>>> +                #print "Potential duplicates: %s" % msg.get_message_id()
>>> +                suspected_duplicates_count += 1
>>> +
>>> +    new_timestamp = time.time()
>>> +    if new_timestamp - timestamp > 1:
>>> +        timestamp = new_timestamp
>>> +        sys.stdout.write("\rProcessed %s messages, removed %s duplicates..." % (msg_count, duplicates_count))
>>> +        sys.stdout.flush()
>>> +
>>> +print "\rFinished. Processed %s messages, removed %s duplicates." % (msg_count, duplicates_count)
>>> +if duplicates_count > 0:
>>> +    print "You might want to run 'notmuch new' now."
>>> +
>>> +if suspected_duplicates_count > 0:
>>> +    print
>>> +    print "Found %s messages with duplicate IDs but different content." % suspected_duplicates_count
>>> +    print "Perhaps we should ignore more headers."
>>
>> Please consider the following instead (not tested):

> Thanks for reviewing my poor python code :) I am afraid I do not have
> enough interest in improving it.  I just implemented a simple solution
> for my problem.  Though it looks like you already took time to rewrite
> the script.  Would be great if you send it as a proper patch obsoleting
> this one.

Bah, I'll probably won't have time to properly test it.

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