[PATCH] contrib/nmbug: convert to use batch tagging.

Tomi Ollila tomi.ollila at iki.fi
Wed Feb 13 06:47:27 PST 2013


On Sat, Feb 09 2013, david at tethera.net wrote:

> From: David Bremner <bremner at debian.org>
>
> In the case of large changes to the database from git, one of main
> current bottlenecks is the large number of execs of notmuch tag. This
> avoids that by using use the batch tagging facilities as of notmuch
> 0.15.
>
> We use "spawn" directly rather than inventing a "notmuch_pipe", since
> it seems the only place we need to pipe to notmuch so far.
> ---

The code LGTM. Is there any quoting differences between these 2 
tagging methods ?

> This is only lightly tested; please make sure you have backups of your
> database.

Do I dare to test -- I'm lazy taking backups (I don't know how to take
one -- and especially how to restore one ;)

> I'm not 100% sure about the indentation. No doubt Tomi will let me
> know if it can be improved.

No doubt...

Tomi

>
>  contrib/nmbug/nmbug |   15 ++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/contrib/nmbug/nmbug b/contrib/nmbug/nmbug
> index f003ef9..c66c526 100755
> --- a/contrib/nmbug/nmbug
> +++ b/contrib/nmbug/nmbug
> @@ -270,17 +270,22 @@ sub do_sync {
>      $D_action = '-';
>    }
>  
> -  foreach my $pair (@{$status->{added}}) {
> +  my $notmuch = spawn ({}, '|-', qw/notmuch tag --batch/)
> +      or die 'notmuch tag --batch';
>  
> -    notmuch ('tag', $A_action.$TAGPREFIX.$pair->{tag},
> -	     'id:'.$pair->{id});
> +  foreach my $pair (@{$status->{added}}) {
> +    print $notmuch $A_action.$TAGPREFIX.$pair->{tag}, " -- ",
> +      'id:'.$pair->{id};
>    }
>  
>    foreach my $pair (@{$status->{deleted}}) {
> -    notmuch ('tag', $D_action.$TAGPREFIX.$pair->{tag},
> -	     'id:'.$pair->{id});
> +    print $notmuch $D_action.$TAGPREFIX.$pair->{tag},
> +      'id:'.$pair->{id};
>    }
>  
> +  unless (close $notmuch) {
> +    die "'notmuch tag --batch' exited with nonzero value\n";
> +  }
>  }
>  
>  
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4
>
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