nmbug in the Debian packages?

[David Edmondson]

On Tue, Feb 16 2016, David Bremner wrote:
> "W. Trevor King" <wking at tremily.us> writes:
>
>>
>> I'd floated notmuch-dtag earlier [1].  Does that sound right?  Or do
>> folks prefer another name?
>>
>
> I had a thought about this. The password manager "pass" uses
>
>    pass git {push|pull}
>
> for git related operations. Perhaps that would make sense for us as
> well?

My initial reaction is that there might be many other potential
interpretations of what "notmuch-git" functionality should look like (as
distinct from current nmbug functionality).

As you mention below, there's quite a lot of implementation in nmbug
that is not simply "put some stuff in a git repository".

> So initially "notmuch-git".  I'm of course open to better ideas, but
> especially since you pushed a bit to make the interface follow git
> more closely, perhaps that's a more informative name than "dtag".  It
> also leaves open the possibility of stashing other metadata than tags,
> should something like [1] come to pass.
>
> On the other hand, it's true that what we're doing is less transparent
> than what pass does, which is really just pass the arguments straight
> through to git.
>
> [1] id:1453561198-2893-2-git-send-email-david at tethera.net
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