X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?p=obsolete%2Fnotmuch-wiki;a=blobdiff_plain;f=manpages%2Fnotmuch-dump-1.mdwn;h=1325c3456b8f8d2d31b5a9d9b5065fd3aa39b11a;hp=2f4db7f04d8f5c82c745301ac32c0ec0cf14669a;hb=dee880643fd8d50e6c67bda0b8a43d37545efb5b;hpb=264ce3866a61e26da9b644a522cd9e857ac94c7b diff --git a/manpages/notmuch-dump-1.mdwn b/manpages/notmuch-dump-1.mdwn index 2f4db7f..1325c34 100644 --- a/manpages/notmuch-dump-1.mdwn +++ b/manpages/notmuch-dump-1.mdwn @@ -27,7 +27,9 @@ Notmuch restore supports two plain text dump formats, both with one message-id per line, followed by a list of tags. - sup The sup dump file format is specifically chosen to be compati- + sup + + The sup dump file format is specifically chosen to be compati- ble 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 @@ -52,12 +54,12 @@ 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 whites- - pace 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 single message-id query is mandatory for notmuch- + Xapian boolean term quoting rules: if the ID contains white- + space 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 spe- + cial case of the batch input format for notmuch-tag(1); note + that the single message-id query is mandatory for notmuch- restore(1). With no search terms, a dump of all messages in the database will