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diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-dump.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-dump.1 index 230deec2..770b00fc 100644 --- a/man/man1/notmuch-dump.1 +++ b/man/man1/notmuch-dump.1 @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ notmuch-dump \- creates a plain-text dump of the tags of each message .SH SYNOPSIS .B "notmuch dump" +.RB [ "\-\-format=(sup|batch-tag)" "] [--]" .RI "[ --output=<" filename "> ] [--]" .RI "[ <" search-term ">...]" @@ -19,6 +20,64 @@ 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.) +.TP 4 +.B \-\-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. + +.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). +Each line has the following form + +.RS 4 +.RI < message-id > +.B ( +.RI < tag "> ..." +.B ) + +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. + +.RE + +.RE +.RS 4 +.TP 4 +.B batch-tag + +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. +Each line has the form + +.RS 4 +.RI "+<" "encoded-tag" "> " "" "+<" "encoded-tag" "> ... -- " "" " id:<" encoded-message-id > + +where encoded means that every byte not matching the regex +.B [A-Za-z0-9@=.,_+-] +is replace by +.B %nn +where nn is the two digit hex encoding. +The astute reader will notice this is a special case of the batch input +format for \fBnotmuch-tag\fR(1); note that the single message-id query is +mandatory for \fBnotmuch-restore\fR(1). + +.RE + + 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. |