notmuch-{dump,restore}.1: document new format options

[notmuch] / man / man1 / notmuch-restore.1

diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-restore.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-restore.1
index 2fa873374479d6e53728bc65dde406f4864d329a..6bba6286617b1b09abdf8bb0ee9ab3e52c15ba0d 100644 (file)
--- a/man/man1/notmuch-restore.1
+++ b/man/man1/notmuch-restore.1
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ notmuch-restore \- restores the tags from the given file (see notmuch dump)
 
 .B "notmuch restore"
 .RB [ "--accumulate" ]
 
 .B "notmuch restore"
 .RB [ "--accumulate" ]

+.RB [ "--format=(auto|batch-tag|sup)" ]

 .RI "[ --input=<" filename "> ]"
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .RI "[ --input=<" filename "> ]"
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION


@@ -15,19 +16,51 @@ Restores the tags from the given file (see
 
 The input is read from the given filename, if any, or from stdin.
 
 
 The input is read from the given filename, if any, or from stdin.
 

-Note: The dump file format is specifically chosen to be
+
+Supported options for
+.B restore
+include
+.RS 4
+.TP 4
+.B \-\-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.
+
+.RE
+.RS 4
+.TP 4
+.B \-\-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 \fBnotmuch-dump\fR(1).
+
+.RS 4
+.TP 4
+.B sup
+
+The
+.B 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
 .B "notmuch restore"
 command provides you a way to import all of your tags (or labels as
 sup calls them).
 
 compatible with the format of files produced by sup-dump.
 So if you've previously been using sup for mail, then the
 .B "notmuch restore"
 command provides you a way to import all of your tags (or labels as
 sup calls them).
 

-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.
+.RE
+.RS 4
+.TP 4
+.B batch-tag

 
 

-See \fBnotmuch-search-terms\fR(7)
-for details of the supported syntax for <search-terms>.
+The
+.B batch-tag
+dump format is intended to more robust against malformed message-ids
+and tags containing whitespace or non-\fBascii\fR(7) characters.  This
+format hex-escapes all characters those outside of a small character
+set, intended to be suitable for e.g. pathnames in most UNIX-like
+systems.

 
 .B "notmuch restore"
 updates the maildir flags according to tag changes if the
 
 .B "notmuch restore"
 updates the maildir flags according to tag changes if the


@@ -36,6 +69,20 @@ configuration option is enabled. See \fBnotmuch-config\fR(1) for
 details.
 
 .RE
 details.
 
 .RE

+
+.RS 4
+.TP 4
+.B 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.
+
+.RE
+
+.RE
+

 .SH SEE ALSO
 
 \fBnotmuch\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-config\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-count\fR(1),
 .SH SEE ALSO
 
 \fBnotmuch\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-config\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-count\fR(1),