Re: How to search on emacs-devel?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> - A bidirectional IMAP <-> Git gateway.
> But this bit would live on a server someplace, not locally?

Right.

>> - an nngit backend (not just read-only).
> And this bit would I guess need to be a wrapper around a different nn*
> backend, since git would only be the transport, the messages themselves
> might be stored as mbox or maildir or something.

I think it'd need its own file layout because we'd want to make sure
Git's conflict resolution does "the right thing".

> This would also compete for the "nngit" name with the
> non-existent-yet-historically-inevitable backend that presents
> a news-like interface to the branches and commits in a git repository.

Yes, it shouldn't be called "nngit".  Instead the file-layout system
would have its own name, like `MailGit`, `Gail`, `GitBox`, or whoknowswhat.


        Stefan