X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fman1%2Fnotmuch-dump.rst;h=ec6335b2febc97099249c01c02002cf6044192f6;hp=17d1da5c7d0884f67dcc8ad2280b6157a453f39f;hb=fd3c93650d976f630ba0a60341a1a695422e4969;hpb=d736260385a689b5c77d8121f48e29440e3adfa4 diff --git a/doc/man1/notmuch-dump.rst b/doc/man1/notmuch-dump.rst index 17d1da5c..ec6335b2 100644 --- a/doc/man1/notmuch-dump.rst +++ b/doc/man1/notmuch-dump.rst @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ notmuch-dump SYNOPSIS ======== -**notmuch** **dump** [--format=(batch-tag|sup)] [--] [--output=<*file*>] [--] [<*search-term*> ...] +**notmuch** **dump** [--gzip] [--format=(batch-tag|sup)] [--output=<*file*>] [--] [<*search-term*> ...] DESCRIPTION =========== @@ -19,17 +19,27 @@ recreated from the messages themselves. The output of notmuch dump is therefore the only critical thing to backup (and much more friendly to incremental backup than the native database files.) +See **notmuch-search-terms(7)** for details of the supported syntax +for . With no search terms, a dump of all messages in +the database will be generated. A ``--`` argument instructs notmuch that +the remaining arguments are search terms. + +Supported options for **dump** include + +``--gzip`` + Compress the output in a format compatible with **gzip(1)**. + ``--format=(sup|batch-tag)`` - Notmuch restore supports two plain text dump formats, both with one - message-id per line, followed by a list of tags. + Notmuch restore supports two plain text dump formats, both with + one message-id per line, followed by a list of tags. **batch-tag** - The default **batch-tag** dump format is intended to more robust - against malformed message-ids and tags containing whitespace or - non-\ **ascii(7)** characters. Each line has the form + The default **batch-tag** dump format is intended to more + robust against malformed message-ids and tags containing + whitespace or non-\ **ascii(7)** characters. Each line has the + form:: - +<*encoded-tag*\ > +<*encoded-tag*\ > ... -- - id:<*quoted-message-id*\ > + +<*encoded-tag*\ > +<*encoded-tag*\ > ... -- id:<*quoted-message-id*\ > Tags are hex-encoded by replacing every byte not matching the regex **[A-Za-z0-9@=.,\_+-]** with **%nn** where nn is the two @@ -44,29 +54,62 @@ incremental backup than the native database files.) **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). Each line has the following form + 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). Each line has the + following form:: - <*message-id*\ > **(** <*tag*\ > ... **)** + <*message-id*\ > **(** <*tag*\ > ... **)** with zero or more tags are separated by spaces. Note that (malformed) message-ids may contain arbitrary non-null characters. Note also that tags with spaces will not be correctly restored with this format. - With no search terms, a dump of all messages in the database will be - generated. A "--" argument instructs notmuch that the remaining - arguments are search terms. +``--include=(config|properties|tags)`` + Control what kind of metadata is included in the output. + + **config** + Output configuration data stored in the database. Each line + starts with "#@ ", followed by a space separated 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. Ids, keys and values are hex encoded + if needed. See **notmuch-properties(7)** for more details. + + **tags** + Output per-message boolean metadata, namely tags. See *format* above + for description of the output. + + The default is to include all available types of data. The option + can be specified multiple times to select some subset. As of + version 3 of the dump format, there is a header line of the + following form:: + + #notmuch-dump <*format*>:<*version*> <*included*> + + where <*included*> is a comma separated list of the above options. - See **notmuch-search-terms(7)** for details of the supported syntax - for . +``--output=``\ + Write output to given file instead of stdout. SEE ALSO ======== -**notmuch(1)**, **notmuch-config(1)**, **notmuch-count(1)**, -**notmuch-hooks(5)**, **notmuch-insert(1)**, **notmuch-new(1)**, -**notmuch-reply(1)**, **notmuch-restore(1)**, **notmuch-search(1)**, -**notmuch-search-terms(7)**, **notmuch-show(1)**, **notmuch-tag(1)** +**notmuch(1)**, +**notmuch-config(1)**, +**notmuch-count(1)**, +**notmuch-hooks(5)**, +**notmuch-insert(1)**, +**notmuch-new(1)**, +**notmuch-properties(7)**, +**notmuch-reply(1)**, +**notmuch-restore(1)**, +**notmuch-search(1)**, +**notmuch-search-terms(7)**, +**notmuch-show(1)**, +**notmuch-tag(1)**