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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: [PATCH 6/8] doc: lei-add-watch: add warning about unreliability
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 11:14:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211028111501.24014-7-e@80x24.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211028111501.24014-1-e@80x24.org>

This needs work at some point in the future.
---
 Documentation/lei-add-watch.pod | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/lei-add-watch.pod b/Documentation/lei-add-watch.pod
index 609846181578..1b48b43b589c 100644
--- a/Documentation/lei-add-watch.pod
+++ b/Documentation/lei-add-watch.pod
@@ -11,6 +11,11 @@ lei add-watch [OPTIONS] LOCATION [LOCATION...]
 Tell lei to watch C<LOCATION> for new messages and flag changes.
 Currently only Maildir locations are supported.
 
+WARNING: watches are not always reliable, occasional use
+of L<lei-index(1)> and L<lei-refresh-mail-sync(1)> is recommended
+if L<lei-daemon(8)> crashes or needs to be restarted.  This will
+be improved in the future.
+
 =for comment
 TODO: Document --state?  Believe valid values are pause, import-ro,
 
@@ -23,11 +28,10 @@ L<http://4uok3hntl7oi7b4uf4rtfwefqeexfzil2w6kgk2jn5z2f764irre7byd.onion/meta/>
 
 =head1 COPYRIGHT
 
-Copyright 2021 all contributors L<mailto:meta@public-inbox.org>
+Copyright all contributors L<mailto:meta@public-inbox.org>
 
 License: AGPL-3.0+ L<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>
 
-
 =head1 SEE ALSO
 
 L<lei-ls-watch(1)>, L<lei-rm-watch(1)>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-28 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-28 11:14 [PATCH 0/8] lei: docs and cleanups Eric Wong
2021-10-28 11:14 ` [PATCH 1/8] xt/net_writer_imap: test "lei convert" w/ IMAP source Eric Wong
2021-10-28 11:14 ` [PATCH 2/8] lei convert: use "--output" in failure message Eric Wong
2021-10-28 11:14 ` [PATCH 3/8] doc: lei-convert: various updates and cleanups Eric Wong
2021-10-28 11:14 ` [PATCH 4/8] doc: lei blob: wording fixups, describe --remote Eric Wong
2021-10-28 11:14 ` [PATCH 5/8] lei convert: remove redundant input_net_cb Eric Wong
2021-10-28 11:14 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2021-10-28 11:15 ` [PATCH 7/8] lei sucks: show nproc in CPU info Eric Wong
2021-10-28 11:15 ` [PATCH 8/8] lei rm: move generic input_maildir_cb to LeiInput parent class Eric Wong

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