X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=manpages%2Fnotmuch-dump-1.mdwn;h=2caf27821bb15e33cbb14a4da082049faa0b0cdb;hb=6562766d20047abcb3bab0d88a1e5849baaae76d;hp=f2108f81b35cd2941308bf163c551ab2be53981a;hpb=aeb851d55ecf79d2e8a8c9a1a99fd73ef1a7ac06;p=notmuch-wiki diff --git a/manpages/notmuch-dump-1.mdwn b/manpages/notmuch-dump-1.mdwn index f2108f8..2caf278 100644 --- a/manpages/notmuch-dump-1.mdwn +++ b/manpages/notmuch-dump-1.mdwn @@ -2,40 +2,88 @@
- notmuch-dump - Creates a plain-text dump of the tags of each message. + notmuch-dump - creates a plain-text dump of the tags of each message
- notmuch dump [ <filename> ] [--] [ <search-term>...] + notmuch dump [--format=(batch-tag|sup)] [--] [--output=<file>] [--] + [<search-term> ...]
Dump tags for messages matching the given search terms. - Output is to the given filename, if any, or to stdout. Note that using - the filename argument is deprecated. + Output is to the given filename, if any, or to stdout. These tags are the only data in the notmuch database that can't be - recreated from the messages themselves. The output of notmuch dump is + recreated from the messages themselves. The output of notmuch dump is therefore the only critical thing to backup (and much more friendly to incremental backup than the native database files.) - With no search terms, a dump of all messages in the database will be - generated. A "--" argument instructs notmuch that the remaining argu- - ments are search terms. + --gzip Compress the output in a format compatible with gzip(1). - See notmuch-search-terms(7) for details of the supported syntax for - <search-terms>. + --format=(sup|batch-tag) + Notmuch restore supports two plain text dump formats, both with + one message-id per line, followed by a list of tags. + + batch-tag + The default batch-tag dump format is intended to more + robust against malformed message-ids and tags containing + whitespace or non-ascii(7) characters. Each line has the + form + +<encoded-tag> +<encoded-tag> ... -- id:<quoted-mesâ + sage-id> + + Tags are hex-encoded by replacing every byte not matching + the regex [A-Za-z0-9@=.,_+-] with %nn 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 notmuch-tag(1); note that the sinâ + gle message-id query is mandatory for notmuch-restore(1). + + sup The sup dump file format is specifically chosen to be + compatible with the format of files produced by sup-dump. + So if you've previously been using sup for mail, then the + notmuch restore command provides you a way to import all + of your tags (or labels as sup calls them). Each line has + the following form + <message-id> ( <tag> ... ) + + with zero or more tags are separated by spaces. Note that + (malformed) message-ids may contain arbitrary non-null + characters. Note also that tags with spaces will not be + correctly restored with this format. + + With no search terms, a dump of all messages in the database + will be generated. A "--" argument instructs notmuch that the + remaining arguments are search terms. + + See notmuch-search-terms(7) for details of the supported syntax + for <search-terms>.
- notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-hooks(5), not- - much-new(1) -, notmuch-reply(1), notmuch-restore(1), notmuch-search(1), - notmuch-search-terms(7), notmuch-show(1), notmuch-tag(1) + notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-hooks(5), notâ + much-insert(1), notmuch-new(1), notmuch-reply(1), notmuch-restore(1), + notmuch-search(1), notmuch-search-terms(7), notmuch-show(1), notâ + much-tag(1) ++ +
+ Carl Worth and many others ++ +
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