X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=manpages%2Fnotmuch-restore-1.mdwn;h=f477b57606e10b7878892955d1fe0724bdcc9b92;hb=887679e40c165171f4f9687932439d1b9fe7d338;hp=a62bf8365265baa7f3fb6765dfa3162685304ade;hpb=316360b4ab00619d2e80d8c18eeaf1ac5cbcaecf;p=notmuch-wiki diff --git a/manpages/notmuch-restore-1.mdwn b/manpages/notmuch-restore-1.mdwn index a62bf83..f477b57 100644 --- a/manpages/notmuch-restore-1.mdwn +++ b/manpages/notmuch-restore-1.mdwn @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@

SYNOPSIS

-       notmuch restore [--accumulate] [ <filename> ]
+       notmuch    restore    [--accumulate]    [--format=(auto|batch-tag|sup)]
+       [--input=<filename>]

DESCRIPTION

@@ -17,28 +18,90 @@ The input is read from the given filename, if any, or from stdin. - Note: The dump file format is specifically chosen to be compatible with - the format of files produced by sup-dump. So if you've previously been - using sup for mail, then the notmuch restore command provides you a way - to import all of your tags (or labels as sup calls them). + Supported options for restore include - The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags - to be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are - read in from the dump file. + --accumulate + The union of the existing and new tags is applied, instead of + replacing each message's tags as they are read in from the + dump file. - See notmuch-search-terms(7) for details of the supported syntax for - <search-terms>. + --format=(sup|batch-tag|auto) + Notmuch restore supports two plain text dump formats, with + each line specifying a message-id and a set of tags. For + details of the actual formats, see notmuch-dump(1). - notmuch restore updates the maildir flags according to tag changes if - the maildir.synchronize_flags configuration option is enabled. See not- - much-config(1) for details. + sup The sup dump file format is specifically chosen to be + compatible with the format of files produced by + sup-dump. So if you've previously been using sup for + mail, then the notmuch restore command provides you a + way to import all of your tags (or labels as sup calls + them). + + batch-tag + The batch-tag dump format is intended to more robust + against malformed message-ids and tags containing + whitespace or non-ascii(7) characters. See not‐ + much-dump(1) for details on this format. + + notmuch restore updates the maildir flags according to + tag changes if the maildir.synchronize_flags configu‐ + ration option is enabled. See notmuch-config(1) for + details. + + auto This option (the default) tries to guess the format + from the input. For correctly formed input in either + supported format, this heuristic, based the fact that + batch-tag format contains no parentheses, should be + accurate. + + --include=(config|properties|tags) + Control what kind of metadata is restored. + config + Restore configuration data to the database. Each configu‐ + ration line starts with "#@ ", followed by a space sepa‐ + rated key-value pair. Both key and value are hex encoded + if needed. + + properties + Output per-message (key,value) metadata. Each line + starts with "#= ", followed by a message id, and a space + separated list of key=value pairs. pair. Ids, keys and + values are hex encoded if needed. + + tags + Output per-message metadata, namely tags. See format + above for more details. + + The default is to restore all available types of data. The + option can be specified multiple times to select some subset. + + --input=<filename> + Read input from given file instead of stdin. + + +

GZIPPED INPUT

+
+       notmuch restore will detect if the input is compressed in gzip(1)  for‐
+       mat  and automatically decompress it while reading. This detection does
+       not depend on file naming and in particular works for standard input.

SEE ALSO

-       notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-dump(1),  not-
-       much-hooks(5),   notmuch-new(1),  notmuch-reply(1),  notmuch-search(1),
-       notmuch-search-terms(7), notmuch-show(1), notmuch-tag(1)
+       notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-dump(1),  not‐
+       much-hooks(5),   notmuch-insert(1),  notmuch-new(1),  notmuch-reply(1),
+       notmuch-search(1),   notmuch-search-terms(7),   notmuch-show(1),   not‐
+       much-tag(1)
+
+ +

AUTHOR

+
+       Carl Worth and many others
+
+ +

COPYRIGHT

+
+       2009-2016, Carl Worth and many others
-

Notmuch 0.13.2

+

0.23.4