From: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 03:19:05 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: NEWS: give a hint about using sort to achieve the old dump behavior.
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X-Git-Url: https://git.notmuchmail.org/git?p=notmuch;a=commitdiff_plain;h=9981f995c6a4122f1adf4bac5febf31e3c147d26

NEWS: give a hint about using sort to achieve the old dump behavior.

This is needed for a few applications, and actually is quite
fast (relative to the actual dump).
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2bf739d2..6b3f37ad 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ Automatic tag query optimization
 Don't sort messages when creating a dump file
 
   This speeds up tag dumps considerably, without any loss of
-  information.
+  information. To replicate the old behavior of sorted output (for
+  example to compare two dump files), one can use e.g. sort(1).
 
 Memory Management
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