[PATCH] NEWS: document notmuch reindex
Daniel Kahn Gillmor
dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Sun Oct 22 11:53:35 PDT 2017
Describe the introduction of the "reindex" subcommand. This blurb
acknowledges Subject: instability under reindexing when multiple
copies exist (suggesting that this is something that needn't
necessarily hold up a release).
---
NEWS | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 895b7627..27d75e3f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,19 @@ Out-of-tree builds
has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
out-of-tree builds.
+Command Line Interface
+----------------------
+
+Support for re-indexing existing messages
+
+ There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
+ messages matching supplied search terms. This permits users to
+ change the way specific messages are indexed.
+
+ Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
+ archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
+ depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
+
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