NOTMUCH-RESTORE(1)
NAME
notmuch-restore - restores the tags from the given file (see notmuch
dump)
SYNOPSIS
notmuch restore [--accumulate] [--format=(auto|batch-tag|sup)] [
--input=<filename> ]
DESCRIPTION
Restores the tags from the given file (see notmuch dump).
The input is read from the given filename, if any, or from stdin.
Supported options for restore include
--accumulate
The union of the existing and new tags is applied, instead of
replacing each message's tags as they are read in from the dump
file.
--format=(sup|batch-tag|auto)
Notmuch restore supports two plain text dump formats, with each
line specifying a message-id and a set of tags. For details of
the actual formats, see notmuch-dump(1).
sup The sup dump file format is specifically chosen to be com-
patible with the format of files produced by sup-dump. So
if you've previously been using sup for mail, then the not-
much restore command provides you a way to import all of
your tags (or labels as sup calls them).
batch-tag
The batch-tag dump format is intended to more robust
against malformed message-ids and tags containing whites-
pace or non-ascii(7) characters. See notmuch-dump(1) for
details on this format.
notmuch restore updates the maildir flags according to tag
changes if the maildir.synchronize_flags configuration
option is enabled. See notmuch-config(1) for details.
auto
This option (the default) tries to guess the format from
the input. For correctly formed input in either supported
format, this heuristic, based the fact that batch-tag for-
mat contains no parentheses, should be accurate.
SEE ALSO
notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-dump(1), not-
much-hooks(5), notmuch-new(1), notmuch-reply(1), notmuch-search(1),
notmuch-search-terms(7), notmuch-show(1), notmuch-tag(1)
Notmuch 0.15