On 2010-04-16, Sebastian Spaeth wrote: > Olly was right in that even for "notmuch tag" we were sorting the > results by date before applying tag changes. I have slightly reworked my > patch to have notmuch tag avoid doing that. I also split up the patch in > 3 patches that do one thing each. > > The patches do: > 1: Introduce NOTMUCH_SORT_UNSORTED > 2: Introduce notmuch search --sort=unsorted > 3: Make notmuch tag not sort results by date > > #2 is the one I am least sure about, I don't know if there is a use case > for notmuch search returning unsorted results. But 1 & 3 are useful at > least.
> Patches 1-3 follow as reply to this one May I advocate patches 1 & 3 for inclusion in 0.3? I've been using this in my tree without problems. patch 2 is left to your judgement as to whether a "--sort=unsorted" is useful for notmuch search. (it will probably rather benefit from a --sort=relevance, I guess). Sebastian