Post sync hook only if something was changed?

[Sebastian Spaeth]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:25:08 +0200, Vladimir Marek <Vladimir.Marek at Oracle.COM> wrote:
> The postsynchook currently runs every time all folders has been
> processed, no matter if there was or was not any change.
> 
> I would like to have a way to run the hook only if there was a change,
> because I am synchronizing the maildirs to a zip file. That is
> unnecessary and time consuming if there's no change.

>  - make it configurable, that post sync hook runs only if there's change

Yes, I think that option would make most sense. No need to
overcomplicate things. (I've added this to my private tracker at
http://trac.sspaeth.de/issue25 to keep a reminder)

>  - make postsynchook_changed in addition to postsynchook
>  - move the logic to the hook program itself; export some environment
>    variable telling if there was any change ?


It makes sense. Either you submit a patch, or I'll see that I get a
patch after I reduced my queue of outstanding patches a little.

Sebastian
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