X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=manpages%2Fnotmuch-dump-1.mdwn;h=976b58c115b0018eedce4e12e80cb329b590c57a;hb=90037cff8296a89bedcc4c2fb93001d245b7ff92;hp=7a94088fe3d6165306101d4da990efaa5ad136db;hpb=0add150ffd941ea7ed64a9116929aaf2daa927a5;p=notmuch-wiki diff --git a/manpages/notmuch-dump-1.mdwn b/manpages/notmuch-dump-1.mdwn index 7a94088..976b58c 100644 --- a/manpages/notmuch-dump-1.mdwn +++ b/manpages/notmuch-dump-1.mdwn @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@

SYNOPSIS

-       notmuch  dump  [--format=(batch-tag|sup)]  [--]  [--output=<file>] [--]
+       notmuch dump [--gzip] [--format=(batch-tag|sup)] [--output=<file>] [--]
        [<search-term> ...]
@@ -22,65 +22,88 @@ therefore the only critical thing to backup (and much more friendly to incremental backup than the native database files.) - --gzip + See notmuch-search-terms(7) for details of the supported syntax for + <search-terms>. 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. - Compress the output in a format compatible with gzip(1). + Supported options for dump include - --format=(sup|batch-tag) + --gzip Compress the output in a format compatible with gzip(1). - Notmuch restore supports two plain text dump formats, both with - one message-id per line, followed by a list of tags. + --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 + 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-mes- - sage-id> + +<encoded-tag> +<encoded-tag> ... -- id:<quoted-mes‐ + 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 + 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 + 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 sin- + 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 sin‐ gle message-id query is mandatory for notmuch-restore(1). - sup - + 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> ... ) + <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. + --include=(config|properties|tags) + + Control what kind of metadata is included in the output. + config + Output configuration data stored in the database. Each line + starts with "#@ ", followed by a space separated key-value + pair. Both key and value are hex encoded if needed. + + properties + Output per-message (key,value) metadata. Each line starts + with "#= ", followed by a message id, and a space separated + list of key=value pairs. pair. Ids, keys and values are hex + encoded if needed. + + tags + Output per-message boolean metadata, namely tags. See format + above for description of the output. + + The default is to include all available types of data. The + option can be specified multiple times to select some subset. As + of version 2 of the dump format, there is a header line of the + following form + + #notmuch-dump <format>:<version> <included> + + where <included> is a comma separated list of the above options. - See notmuch-search-terms(7) for details of the supported syntax - for <search-terms>. + --output=<filename> + Write output to given file instead of stdout.

SEE ALSO

-       notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-hooks(5), not-
+       notmuch(1), notmuch-config(1), notmuch-count(1), notmuch-hooks(5), not‐
        much-insert(1), notmuch-new(1),  notmuch-reply(1),  notmuch-restore(1),
-       notmuch-search(1),   notmuch-search-terms(7),   notmuch-show(1),   not-
+       notmuch-search(1),   notmuch-search-terms(7),   notmuch-show(1),   not‐
        much-tag(1)
@@ -91,7 +114,7 @@

COPYRIGHT

-       2014, Carl Worth and many others
+       2009-2016, Carl Worth and many others
-

0.18

+

0.23.4