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man: Update notmuch-dump(1) and notmuch-restore(1)
Describe the new batch-tag format. For notmuch-restore, rather than half-heartedly duplicating the description, we now cite notmuch-dump.
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@ -64,13 +64,16 @@ 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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.RI "+<" "encoded-tag" "> " "" "+<" "encoded-tag" "> ... -- " "" " id:<" quoted-message-id >
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where encoded means that every byte not matching the regex
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Tags are hex-encoded by replacing 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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with
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.B %nn
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where nn is the two digit hex encoding.
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where nn is the two digit hex encoding. The message ID is a valid Xapian
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query, quoted using Xapian boolean term quoting rules: if the ID contains
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whitespace or a close paren or starts with a double quote, it must be
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enclosed in double quotes and double quotes inside the ID must be doubled.
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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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@ -57,10 +57,8 @@ sup calls them).
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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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and tags containing whitespace or non-\fBascii\fR(7) characters. See
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\fBnotmuch-dump\fR(1) for details on this format.
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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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