[PATCH 8/8] NEWS: news for notmuch_directory_delete
David Bremner
david at tethera.net
Sat Oct 17 13:42:53 PDT 2015
From: Jani Nikula <jani at nikula.org>
---
NEWS | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6a33330..c544a8e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -88,6 +88,19 @@ Library
The use of absolute paths is now enforced when calling
`notmuch_database_{open, create}`.
+New function `notmuch_directory_delete` to delete directory documents
+
+ Previously there was no way to delete directory documents from the
+ database, leading to confusing results when the "ghost" directory
+ document of a renamed or deleted filesystem directory was
+ encountered every time the parent directory was being scanned by
+ `notmuch new`. The mtime of the old directory document was also used
+ if a directory by the same name was added again in the filesystem,
+ potentially bypassing the scan for the directory. The issues are
+ fixed by providing a library call to delete directory documents, and
+ deleting the old documents in `notmuch new` on filesystem directory
+ removal or rename.
+
Database revision tracking
Revision tracking is supported via a new prefix "lastmod:" in the
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