[PATCH v2 5/5] man: Update notmuch-dump(1) and notmuch-restore(1)
Austin Clements
amdragon at MIT.EDU
Tue Dec 25 19:48:43 PST 2012
Describe the new batch-tag format. For notmuch-restore, rather than
half-heartedly duplicating the description, we now cite notmuch-dump.
---
man/man1/notmuch-dump.1 | 11 +++++++----
man/man1/notmuch-restore.1 | 6 ++----
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-dump.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-dump.1
index 770b00f..7bd6def 100644
--- a/man/man1/notmuch-dump.1
+++ b/man/man1/notmuch-dump.1
@@ -64,13 +64,16 @@ 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 >
+.RI "+<" "encoded-tag" "> " "" "+<" "encoded-tag" "> ... -- " "" " id:<" quoted-message-id >
-where encoded means that every byte not matching the regex
+Tags are hex-encoded by replacing every byte not matching the regex
.B [A-Za-z0-9@=.,_+-]
-is replace by
+with
.B %nn
-where nn is the two digit hex encoding.
+where nn is the two digit hex encoding. The message ID is a valid Xapian
+query, quoted using Xapian boolean term quoting rules: if the ID contains
+whitespace or a close paren or starts with a double quote, it must be
+enclosed in double quotes and double quotes inside the ID must be doubled.
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).
diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-restore.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-restore.1
index 6bba628..78fef52 100644
--- a/man/man1/notmuch-restore.1
+++ b/man/man1/notmuch-restore.1
@@ -57,10 +57,8 @@ sup calls them).
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. This
-format hex-escapes all characters those outside of a small character
-set, intended to be suitable for e.g. pathnames in most UNIX-like
-systems.
+and tags containing whitespace or non-\fBascii\fR(7) characters. See
+\fBnotmuch-dump\fR(1) for details on this format.
.B "notmuch restore"
updates the maildir flags according to tag changes if the
--
1.7.10.4
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