[PATCH v2] man: show: update man page for entire-thread and json.

Austin Clements amdragon at MIT.EDU
Tue Jul 24 20:12:02 PDT 2012


LGTM.

On Tue, 24 Jul 2012, Mark Walters <markwalters1009 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Previously in notmuch show --format=json implied --entire-thread. This
> is still the default but it is now possible to disable this. Update
> the manpage to reflect this.
> ---
>
> Update the manpage since --format=json and --entire-thread=false is
> now supported. Reworded as Austin suggested.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Mark 
>
>  man/man1/notmuch-show.1 |   21 +++++++++++++--------
>  1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-show.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-show.1
> index 506583a..765b22c 100644
> --- a/man/man1/notmuch-show.1
> +++ b/man/man1/notmuch-show.1
> @@ -24,11 +24,14 @@ Supported options for
>  include
>  .RS 4
>  .TP 4
> -.B \-\-entire\-thread
> +.B \-\-entire\-thread=(true|false)
>  
> -By default only those messages that match the search terms will be
> -displayed. With this option, all messages in the same thread as any
> -matched message will be displayed.
> +If true,
> +.B notmuch show
> +outputs all messages in the thread of any message matching the search
> +terms; if false, it outputs only the matching messages. For
> +.B --format=json
> +this defaults to true.  For other formats, this defaults to false.
>  .RE
>  
>  .RS 4
> @@ -55,11 +58,13 @@ be nested.
>  The output is formatted with Javascript Object Notation (JSON). This
>  format is more robust than the text format for automated
>  processing. The nested structure of multipart MIME messages is
> -reflected in nested JSON output. JSON output always includes all
> -messages in a matching thread; in effect
> +reflected in nested JSON output. By default JSON output includes all
> +messages in a matching thread; that is, by default,
>  .B \-\-format=json
> -implies
> -.B \-\-entire\-thread
> +sets
> +.B "\-\-entire\-thread"
> +The caller can disable this behaviour by setting
> +.B \-\-entire\-thread=false
>  
>  .RE
>  .RS 4
> -- 
> 1.7.9.1


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