<h2>NAME</h2>
<pre>
- notmuch-restore - Restores the tags from the given file (see notmuch
- dump).
+ notmuch-restore - restores the tags from the given file (see notmuch
+ dump)
</pre>
<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
<pre>
- <b>notmuch</b> <b>restore</b> [<b>--accumulate</b>] [ <<u>filename</u>> ]
+ <b>notmuch</b> <b>restore</b> [--accumulate] [--format=(auto|batch-tag|sup)]
+ [--input=<<u>filename</u>>]
</pre>
<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
The input is read from the given filename, if any, or from stdin.
- Note: The 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 <b>notmuch</b> <b>restore</b> command provides you a way
- to import all of your tags (or labels as sup calls them).
+ Supported options for <b>restore</b> include
- The --accumulate switch causes the union of the existing and new tags
- to be applied, instead of replacing each message's tags as they are
- read in from the dump file.
+ <b>--accumulate</b>
+ 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.
- See <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>notmuch-search-terms</a>(7) for details of the supported syntax for
- <search-terms>.
+ <b>--format=(sup|batch-tag|auto)</b>
+ 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 <a href='../notmuch-dump-1/'>notmuch-dump</a>(1).
- <b>notmuch</b> <b>restore</b> updates the maildir flags according to tag changes if
- the <b>maildir.synchronize</b>_<b>flags</b> configuration option is enabled. See <a href='../notmuch-config-1/'>not-</a>
- <a href='../notmuch-config-1/'>much-config</a>(1)
- for details.
+ <b>sup</b> The <b>sup</b> 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 <b>notmuch</b> <b>restore</b> command provides you a
+ way to import all of your tags (or labels as sup calls
+ them).
+
+ <b>batch-tag</b>
+ The <b>batch-tag</b> dump format is intended to more robust
+ against malformed message-ids and tags containing
+ whitespace or non-<b>ascii</b>(7) characters. See <a href='../notmuch-dump-1/'>not‐</a>
+ <a href='../notmuch-dump-1/'>much-dump</a>(1) for details on this format.
+
+ <b>notmuch</b> <b>restore</b> updates the maildir flags according to
+ tag changes if the <b>maildir.synchronize</b>_<b>flags</b> configu‐
+ ration option is enabled. See <a href='../notmuch-config-1/'>notmuch-config</a>(1) for
+ details.
+
+ <b>auto</b> 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 format contains no parentheses, should be
+ accurate.
+
+ <b>--input=<filename></b>
+ Read input from given file instead of stdin.
+</pre>
+
+<h2>GZIPPED INPUT</h2>
+<pre>
+ <b>notmuch</b> <b>restore</b> will detect if the input is compressed in <b>gzip</b>(1) for‐
+ mat and automatically decompress it while reading. This detection does
+ not depend on file naming and in particular works for standard input.
</pre>
<h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
<pre>
- <a href='../notmuch-1/'>notmuch</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-config-1/'>notmuch-config</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-count-1/'>notmuch-count</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-dump-1/'>notmuch-dump</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>not-</a>
- <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>much-hooks</a>(5)
-, <a href='../notmuch-new-1/'>notmuch-new</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-reply-1/'>notmuch-reply</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-search-1/'>notmuch-search</a>(1),
- <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>notmuch-search-terms</a>(7), <a href='../notmuch-show-1/'>notmuch-show</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>notmuch-tag</a>(1)
+ <a href='../notmuch-1/'>notmuch</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-config-1/'>notmuch-config</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-count-1/'>notmuch-count</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-dump-1/'>notmuch-dump</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>not‐</a>
+ <a href='../notmuch-hooks-5/'>much-hooks</a>(5), <a href='../notmuch-insert-1/'>notmuch-insert</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-new-1/'>notmuch-new</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-reply-1/'>notmuch-reply</a>(1),
+ <a href='../notmuch-search-1/'>notmuch-search</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-search-terms-7/'>notmuch-search-terms</a>(7), <a href='../notmuch-show-1/'>notmuch-show</a>(1), <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>not‐</a>
+ <a href='../notmuch-tag-1/'>much-tag</a>(1)
+</pre>
+
+<h2>AUTHOR</h2>
+<pre>
+ Carl Worth and many others
+</pre>
+
+<h2>COPYRIGHT</h2>
+<pre>
+ 2014, Carl Worth and many others
</pre>
-<h2>Notmuch 0.13.2</h2>
+<h2>0.20.1</h2>
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