Hi Jamie - On Mon, 17 Mar 2014, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote: > Hey, David et. al. I recently did an upgrade to notmuch/master after > being out of the loop for a while and not noticing that a database > upgrade was pending. The next notmuch new informed me that a database > upgrade was required, but it went ahead and did the upgrade unprompted. > Things went fine, but it did worry me a bit that I didn't know an > upgrade was pending and didn't have a chance to do a backup before it > happened.
FWIW it should always be safe to interrupt the upgrade; I know we don't inform the user about this. > It would be nice if notmuch new would prompt users when an database > upgrade is pending, to give the user an option to abort before > proceeding so that they can do a backup if they'd like. Please see id:87lhy4f6pr.fsf at nikula.org for a summary on some of the pros and cons that have been discussed about prompting the user. BR, Jani.
