nmbug: You only need to push over SSH

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+[[!img notmuch-logo.png alt="Notmuch logo" class="left"]]
 # Experimental Tag Sharing / Pseudo-Bug-Tracking for/with notmuch
 
 ## Web View
@@ -6,20 +7,19 @@ There is a dump of (some views of) the nmbug [[status|http://nmbug.tethera.net/s
 
 ## Getting started
 
-1. Install and use notmuch version notmuch 0.9+63~gebd1adc or newer and
-   perl module `Pod::Usage` (packaged as `perl-doc` in debian).
+0. Make sure that the whole [notmuch@notmuchmail.org mailing list
+   archive][archive] is available in your email database.
 
-   The nmbug script is available in `contrib/nmbug`.
+1. Install and use nmbug from notmuch version **0.19** or newer, and
+   either Python 2.7 or anything from the 3.x line.
 
-2. The current tag repo can be obtained by:
+   The nmbug script is available in [devel/nmbug][nmbug].
 
-   `$ git clone --bare http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git $HOME/.nmbug`
+2. Make sure your `git version` is **1.7.4** or newer. 
 
-   Check that your git is recent enough by entering:
+3. Enter the following command to obtain the current tag repository:
 
-   `$ git --git-dir=$HOME/.nmbug fetch`
-
-   If you get failures then you need to update your git (as well).
+   `$ nmbug clone http://nmbug.tethera.net/git/nmbug-tags.git`
 
 ## Using nmbug, simple example
 
@@ -70,9 +70,9 @@ email) to David Bremner.  There is a convenience command:
 
     $ nmbug push
 
-But you will have to change your url with:
+But you will have to change your push URL with:
 
-    $ git --git-dir=$HOME/.nmbug remote set-url origin nmbug@nmbug.tethera.net:nmbug-tags
+    $ git --git-dir=$HOME/.nmbug remote set-url --push origin nmbug@nmbug.tethera.net:nmbug-tags
 
 ## Tagging conventions
 
@@ -153,7 +153,10 @@ search in emacs):
 You might or might not want as many exclusions.  Another interesting
 search is:
 
-    tag:notmuch::reviewed and not tag:notmuch::pushed
+    tag:notmuch::patch and not tag:notmuch::needs-review and not \
+        tag:notmuch::pushed and not tag:notmuch::obsolete and not \
+            tag:notmuch::wontfix and not tag:notmuch::moreinfo and not \
+                tag:notmuch::stale and not tag:notmuch::wip
 
 See the [[status|http://nmbug.tethera.net/status]] page for more
 example searches.
@@ -164,8 +167,8 @@ example searches.
 
 The tags are stored in a bare-repo, which means they are not obviously
 visible. There is an `nmbug archive` command analogous to `git
-archive` Tags are represented as empty files in the tree; if you extra
-them, the tree looks something like:
+archive` Tags are represented as empty files in the tree; if you
+extract them, the tree looks something like:
 
     tags/878waiwi0f.wl%25james@hackervisions.org/
     tags/878waiwi0f.wl%25james@hackervisions.org/emacs
@@ -181,3 +184,6 @@ The `%25` represents hex code for a character that cannot be used directly
 
 - Currently the parser of nmbug (like that of notmuch restore) assumes
   that there are no spaces in message-ids.
+
+[archive]: http://notmuchmail.org/archives/notmuch.mbox
+[nmbug]: http://git.notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch/blob/HEAD:/devel/nmbug/nmbug