From: Jani Nikula Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 13:06:53 +0000 (+0300) Subject: NEWS: news for notmuch_directory_delete X-Git-Tag: 0.21_rc2~2 X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=commitdiff_plain;h=ea66dec8784b3b0b879fd35d7c48b4d3869ecadd NEWS: news for notmuch_directory_delete --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6a333303..c544a8ef 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