From 4c62d9366a389b7ddca796009d1dfe6a885cfde0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Bremner Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:12:28 -0300 Subject: restore: transparently support gzipped input We rely completely on zlib to do the right thing in detecting gzipped input. Since our dump format is chosen to be 7 bit ascii, this should be fine. --- doc/man1/notmuch-restore.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/man1/notmuch-restore.rst b/doc/man1/notmuch-restore.rst index d6cf19ab..936b1383 100644 --- a/doc/man1/notmuch-restore.rst +++ b/doc/man1/notmuch-restore.rst @@ -50,6 +50,14 @@ Supported options for **restore** include format, this heuristic, based the fact that batch-tag format contains no parentheses, should be accurate. +GZIPPED INPUT +============= + +\ **notmuch restore** will detect if the input is compressed in +**gzip(1)** format and automatically decompress it while reading. This +detection does not depend on file naming and in particular works for +standard input. + SEE ALSO ======== -- cgit v1.2.3