X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fman1%2Fnotmuch-restore.1;h=895c6d29c23d69c19793fc07fe6ecec97e0b178f;hp=2191df016353508731704c5793b747b2bc1616fb;hb=df9f50185cf71dd4801cfd24ade33d5c2f74de1a;hpb=d43f6c00b351424e903c2f2b71c34bc5902b467e diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-restore.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-restore.1 index 2191df01..895c6d29 100644 --- a/man/man1/notmuch-restore.1 +++ b/man/man1/notmuch-restore.1 @@ -1,12 +1,13 @@ -.TH NOTMUCH-RESTORE 1 2011-12-04 "Notmuch 0.10.2" +.TH NOTMUCH-RESTORE 1 2013-01-18 "Notmuch 0.15" .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 @@ -15,25 +16,75 @@ 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 . +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 +.B "maildir.synchronize_flags" +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-hooks\fR(5), \fBnotmuch-new\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-part\fR(1), -\fBnotmuch-reply\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-dump\fR(1), -\fBnotmuch-search\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-search-terms\fR(7), -\fBnotmuch-show\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-tag\fR(1) +\fBnotmuch-dump\fR(1), \fBnotmuch-hooks\fR(5), \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)