[Qemu-devel] Neat 'patches' trick: mark obsolete or committed patch series as read

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

I use Anthony's 'patches' tool for tracking patch series on the
mailing list (http://github.com/aliguori/patches).  Patches knows
which email threads have been obsoleted by newer patch revisions and
which have been committed to qemu.git.

If you use notmuch to index your email, the following command marks
emails read if they are obsoleted or committed:

$ notmuch tag -unread $(patches list --format notmuch 'status:obsolete
or status:committed')

That way you don't have to wade through outdated email threads.  It
makes catching up on email much quicker.

Note you need the notmuch "maildir.synchronize_flags" to actually
reflect the unread status into your Maildir.

Stefan