notmuch reindex wipes existing tags

[David Bremner]

Franz Fellner <alpine.art.de at gmail.com> writes:

> Ran notmuch reindex.
> And now all custom tags were wiped, especially attachments-extracted.
> I now can't see if the pdf of a certain message was already saved.
> This is 3 years of 5 newspapers a weak. I must delete the files
> and re-extract them.
>
> I did not expect that, especially after reading the man page
> which doesn't warn about resetting tags.
>
> So here my question:
> Is this a bug or a feature?

It sounds like a bug. But it's a bug that the test suite specifically
tests for ("reindex preserves tags" in T700-reindex.sh) so I'm not sure
what is going on. To eliminate the obvious, does the test suite pass for
you?

d