State changes not pushed back to gmail: when relative to current dir .

[windo]

I don't know how I ended up in this state or if it's again somehow related to older versions of libraries (from Debian), but I found my setup in a state where state changes (eg: tag:unread) were not being synced back to gmail, with push saying:

$ gmi push
receiving metadata (5) ...done: 5 its in 00.081s
resolving changes (5) ...done: 5 its in 00.000s
push: nothing to push

I had followed some other older (closed) issues and made sure to do a fresh sync with the right flags in notmuch.config:

[database]
path=/home/windo/mail
[new]
tags=
ignore=
[maildir]
synchronize_flags=true

Anyway, I finally traced it down to needing to do this in remote.py:

-            qry = "path:%s/** and lastmod:%d..%d" % (
-                self.local.nm_relative,
+            if self.local.nm_relative == ".":
+              path = "**"
+            else:
+              path = "%s/**" % self.local.nm_relative
+            qry = "path:%s and lastmod:%d..%d" % (
+                path,
                 self.local.state.lastmod,
                 rev,
             )

In my case, self.local/nm_relative is . but when I try the query notmuch search path:./** it returns no results, but path:** finds everything (and I only have the gmail-synced e-mail in there).

Anyway, I think it may well not be very applicable to other users, but I wanted to record it here in case anyone else runs into something similar with whatever weirdness is going on with my setup.

[gauteh]

Looks like there is something that doesn't work there yes. Seems like your fix should fix it correctly, but would need a bit of testing.

[gauteh]

Is this the same as #208 ?

[windo]

Oh yes it is, I had forgotten that I had discovered and mentioned this before and seems I had somehow lost the local fix :)

[gauteh]

Ok :)