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lib: clarify description of notmuch_database_add_message

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Since we're accumulating the index when we add a new file to the
message, the semantics have slightly changed.  This tries to align the
documentation with the actual functionality.
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Daniel Kahn Gillmor 2017-08-17 19:14:24 -04:00 committed by David Bremner
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@ -542,8 +542,10 @@ notmuch_database_get_directory (notmuch_database_t *database,
notmuch_directory_t **directory);
/**
* Add a new message to the given notmuch database or associate an
* additional filename with an existing message.
* Add a message file to a database, indexing it for retrieval by
* future searches. If a message already exists with the same message
* ID as the specified file, their indexes will be merged, and this
* new filename will also be associated with the existing message.
*
* Here, 'filename' should be a path relative to the path of
* 'database' (see notmuch_database_get_path), or else should be an
@ -556,8 +558,9 @@ notmuch_database_get_directory (notmuch_database_t *database,
* entire contents of the file.
*
* If another message with the same message ID already exists in the
* database, rather than creating a new message, this adds 'filename'
* to the list of the filenames for the existing message.
* database, rather than creating a new message, this adds the search
* terms from the identified file to the existing message's index, and
* adds 'filename' to the list of filenames known for the message.
*
* If 'message' is not NULL, then, on successful return
* (NOTMUCH_STATUS_SUCCESS or NOTMUCH_STATUS_DUPLICATE_MESSAGE_ID) '*message'