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authorDaniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>2017-10-20 22:25:40 -0400
committerDavid Bremner <david@tethera.net>2017-10-21 19:53:08 -0300
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reindex: drop all properties named with prefix "index."
This allows us to create new properties that will be automatically set during indexing, and cleared during re-indexing, just by choice of property name.
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@@ -41,6 +41,12 @@ Extensions to notmuch which make use of properties are encouraged to
report the specific properties used to the upstream notmuch project,
as a way of avoiding collisions in the property namespace.
+CONVENTIONS
+===========
+
+Any property with a key that starts with "index." will be removed (and
+possibly re-set) upon reindexing (see **notmuch-reindex(1)**).
+
SEE ALSO
========