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

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+++ b/man/man1/notmuch-restore.1
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
-.TH NOTMUCH-RESTORE 1 2012-02-29 "Notmuch 0.12~rc1"
+.TH NOTMUCH-RESTORE 1 2013-07-28 "Notmuch 0.16"
 .SH NAME
-notmuch-restore \- Restores the tags from the given file (see notmuch dump).
+notmuch-restore \- restores the tags from the given file (see notmuch dump)
 
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 
 .B "notmuch restore"
 .RB [ "--accumulate" ]
-.RI "[ <" filename "> ]"
+.RB [ "--format=(auto|batch-tag|sup)" ]
+.RI "[ --input=<" filename "> ]"
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -15,19 +16,49 @@ Restores the tags from the given file (see
 
 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).
 
-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.  See
+\fBnotmuch-dump\fR(1) for details on this format.
 
 .B "notmuch restore"
 updates the maildir flags according to tag changes if the
@@ -36,10 +67,25 @@ configuration option is enabled. See \fBnotmuch-config\fR(1) for
 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),
-\fBnotmuch-dump\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-hooks\fR(5), \fBnotmuch-new\fR(1),
+\fBnotmuch-dump\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-hooks\fR(5),
+\fBnotmuch-insert\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-new\fR(1),
 \fBnotmuch-reply\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-search\fR(1),
 \fBnotmuch-search-terms\fR(7), \fBnotmuch-show\fR(1),
 \fBnotmuch-tag\fR(1)