[PATCH v2 (rebased) 3/4] man: update man page for the new --body=true|false option

Mark Walters markwalters1009 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 24 11:23:29 PDT 2012


---
 man/man1/notmuch-show.1 |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-show.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-show.1
index b51a54c..506583a 100644
--- a/man/man1/notmuch-show.1
+++ b/man/man1/notmuch-show.1
@@ -152,6 +152,22 @@ The default is
 
 .RE
 
+.RS 4
+.TP 4
+.B \-\-body=(true|false)
+
+If true (the default)
+.B notmuch show
+includes the bodies of the messages in the output; if false,
+bodies are omitted.
+.B --body=false
+is only implemented for the json format and it is incompatible with
+.B --part > 0.
+
+This is useful if the caller only needs the headers as body-less
+output is much faster and substantially smaller.
+.RE
+
 A common use of
 .B notmuch show
 is to display a single thread of email messages. For this, use a
-- 
1.7.9.1



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