X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=nmbug.mdwn;h=32c7cbbbe831f08982f5313b10590704590cb19c;hb=1d13cef9464390ef7d740b6ff67f7f3e04fb773b;hp=6431ee9c68397c5c515bba43af5aec633687cac7;hpb=d1a8870b6e9da796c7261009d7c9a7b766608e38;p=notmuch-wiki diff --git a/nmbug.mdwn b/nmbug.mdwn index 6431ee9..32c7cbb 100644 --- a/nmbug.mdwn +++ b/nmbug.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +[[!img notmuch-logo.png alt="Notmuch logo" class="left"]] # Experimental Tag Sharing / Pseudo-Bug-Tracking for/with notmuch ## Web View @@ -6,20 +7,18 @@ There is a dump of (some views of) the nmbug [[status|http://nmbug.tethera.net/s ## Getting started -1. Install and use notmuch version notmuch 0.9+63~gebd1adc or newer and - perl module `Pod::Usage` (packaged as `perl-doc` in debian). - - The nmbug script is available in `contrib/nmbug`. +0. Make sure that the whole notmuch@notmuchmail.org mailing list archive is available in your email database. -2. The current tag repo can be obtained by: +1. Install and use nmbug from notmuch version **0.18** or newer and + perl module `Pod::Usage` (packaged as `perl-doc` in debian). - `$ git clone --bare http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git $HOME/.nmbug` + The nmbug script is available in [devel/nmbug][nmbug]. - Check that your git is recent enough by entering: +2. Make sure your `git version` is **1.7.4** or newer. - `$ git --git-dir=$HOME/.nmbug fetch` +3. Enter the following command to obtain the current tag repository: - If you get failures then you need to update your git (as well). + `$ nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git` ## Using nmbug, simple example @@ -112,6 +111,12 @@ Sometimes the process stalls, and patches get tagged: or others notmuch::stale The patch no longer applies to master (or in rare cases, to release) + +Note that these tags typically apply to whole series of patches; it +doesn't usually make sense to apply patches later in the series before +earlier ones. So a patch may be tagged `moreinfo` or `stale` only +because a predecessor patch is. + ### Bug tracking tag So far we are just tagging certain messages as bug reports, meaning @@ -158,8 +163,8 @@ example searches. The tags are stored in a bare-repo, which means they are not obviously visible. There is an `nmbug archive` command analogous to `git -archive` Tags are represented as empty files in the tree; if you extra -them, the tree looks something like: +archive` Tags are represented as empty files in the tree; if you +extract them, the tree looks something like: tags/878waiwi0f.wl%25james@hackervisions.org/ tags/878waiwi0f.wl%25james@hackervisions.org/emacs @@ -175,3 +180,5 @@ The `%25` represents hex code for a character that cannot be used directly - Currently the parser of nmbug (like that of notmuch restore) assumes that there are no spaces in message-ids. + +[nmbug]: http://git.notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch/blob/HEAD:/devel/nmbug/nmbug