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notmuch-{dump,restore}.1: document new format options
More or less arbitrarily, notmuch-dump.1 gets the more detailed description of the format.
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@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ notmuch-dump \- creates a plain-text dump of the tags of each message
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B "notmuch dump"
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.RB [ "\-\-format=(sup|batch-tag)" "] [--]"
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.RI "[ --output=<" filename "> ] [--]"
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.RI "[ <" search-term ">...]"
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therefore the only critical thing to backup (and much more friendly to
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incremental backup than the native database files.)
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.TP 4
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.B \-\-format=(sup|batch-tag)
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Notmuch restore supports two plain text dump formats, both with one message-id
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per line, followed by a list of tags.
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.RS 4
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.TP 4
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.B sup
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The
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.B sup
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dump file format is specifically chosen to be
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compatible with the format of files produced by sup-dump.
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So if you've previously been using sup for mail, then the
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.B "notmuch restore"
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command provides you a way to import all of your tags (or labels as
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sup calls them).
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Each line has the following form
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.RS 4
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.RI < message-id >
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.B (
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.RI < tag "> ..."
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.B )
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with zero or more tags are separated by spaces. Note that (malformed)
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message-ids may contain arbitrary non-null characters. Note also
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that tags with spaces will not be correctly restored with this format.
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.RE
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.RE
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.RS 4
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.TP 4
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.B batch-tag
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The
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.B batch-tag
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dump format is intended to more robust against malformed message-ids
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and tags containing whitespace or non-\fBascii\fR(7) characters.
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Each line has the form
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.RS 4
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.RI "+<" "encoded-tag" "> " "" "+<" "encoded-tag" "> ... -- " "" " id:<" encoded-message-id >
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where encoded means that every byte not matching the regex
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.B [A-Za-z0-9@=.,_+-]
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is replace by
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.B %nn
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where nn is the two digit hex encoding.
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The astute reader will notice this is a special case of the batch input
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format for \fBnotmuch-tag\fR(1); note that the single message-id query is
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mandatory for \fBnotmuch-restore\fR(1).
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.RE
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With no search terms, a dump of all messages in the database will be
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generated. A "--" argument instructs notmuch that the
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remaining arguments are search terms.
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@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ notmuch-restore \- restores the tags from the given file (see notmuch dump)
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.B "notmuch restore"
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.RB [ "--accumulate" ]
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.RB [ "--format=(auto|batch-tag|sup)" ]
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.RI "[ --input=<" filename "> ]"
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The input is read from the given filename, if any, or from stdin.
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Note: The dump file format is specifically chosen to be
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Supported options for
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.B restore
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include
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.RS 4
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.TP 4
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.B \-\-accumulate
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The union of the existing and new tags is applied, instead of
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replacing each message's tags as they are read in from the dump file.
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.RE
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.RS 4
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.TP 4
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.B \-\-format=(sup|batch-tag|auto)
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Notmuch restore supports two plain text dump formats, with each line
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specifying a message-id and a set of tags.
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For details of the actual formats, see \fBnotmuch-dump\fR(1).
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.RS 4
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.TP 4
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.B sup
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The
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.B sup
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dump file format is specifically chosen to be
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compatible with the format of files produced by sup-dump.
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So if you've previously been using sup for mail, then the
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.B "notmuch restore"
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command provides you a way to import all of your tags (or labels as
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sup calls them).
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The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags to be
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applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are read in from the
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dump file.
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.RE
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.RS 4
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.TP 4
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.B batch-tag
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See \fBnotmuch-search-terms\fR(7)
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for details of the supported syntax for <search-terms>.
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The
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.B batch-tag
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dump format is intended to more robust against malformed message-ids
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and tags containing whitespace or non-\fBascii\fR(7) characters. This
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format hex-escapes all characters those outside of a small character
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set, intended to be suitable for e.g. pathnames in most UNIX-like
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systems.
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.B "notmuch restore"
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updates the maildir flags according to tag changes if the
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details.
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.RE
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.RS 4
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.TP 4
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.B auto
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This option (the default) tries to guess the format from the
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input. For correctly formed input in either supported format, this
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heuristic, based the fact that batch-tag format contains no parentheses,
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should be accurate.
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.RE
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.RE
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.SH SEE ALSO
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\fBnotmuch\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-config\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-count\fR(1),
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