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From: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 5/5] man: Update notmuch-dump(1) and notmuch-restore(1)
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:26:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1356719189-2837-6-git-send-email-amdragon@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1356719189-2837-1-git-send-email-amdragon@mit.edu>

Describe the new batch-tag format.  For notmuch-restore, rather than
half-heartedly duplicating the description, we now cite notmuch-dump.
---
 man/man1/notmuch-dump.1    |   11 +++++++----
 man/man1/notmuch-restore.1 |    6 ++----
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-dump.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-dump.1
index 770b00f..7bd6def 100644
--- a/man/man1/notmuch-dump.1
+++ b/man/man1/notmuch-dump.1
@@ -64,13 +64,16 @@ and tags containing whitespace or non-\fBascii\fR(7) characters.
 Each line has the form
 
 .RS 4
-.RI "+<" "encoded-tag" "> " "" "+<" "encoded-tag" "> ... -- " "" " id:<" encoded-message-id >
+.RI "+<" "encoded-tag" "> " "" "+<" "encoded-tag" "> ... -- " "" " id:<" quoted-message-id >
 
-where encoded means that every byte not matching the regex
+Tags are hex-encoded by replacing every byte not matching the regex
 .B [A-Za-z0-9@=.,_+-]
-is replace by
+with
 .B %nn
-where nn is the two digit hex encoding.
+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
+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 \fBnotmuch-tag\fR(1); note that the single message-id query is
 mandatory for \fBnotmuch-restore\fR(1).
diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-restore.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-restore.1
index 6bba628..78fef52 100644
--- a/man/man1/notmuch-restore.1
+++ b/man/man1/notmuch-restore.1
@@ -57,10 +57,8 @@ sup calls them).
 The
 .B batch-tag
 dump format is intended to more robust against malformed message-ids
-and tags containing whitespace or non-\fBascii\fR(7) characters.  This
-format hex-escapes all characters those outside of a small character
-set, intended to be suitable for e.g. pathnames in most UNIX-like
-systems.
+and tags containing whitespace or non-\fBascii\fR(7) characters.  See
+\fBnotmuch-dump\fR(1) for details on this format.
 
 .B "notmuch restore"
 updates the maildir flags according to tag changes if the
-- 
1.7.10.4

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-12-28 18:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-28 18:26 [PATCH v3 0/5] Use Xapian query syntax for batch-tag dump/restore Austin Clements
2012-12-28 18:26 ` [PATCH v3 1/5] util: Factor out boolean term quoting routine Austin Clements
2012-12-28 18:26 ` [PATCH v3 2/5] util: Function to parse boolean term queries Austin Clements
2012-12-29 16:50   ` Mark Walters
2012-12-29 21:58   ` Tomi Ollila
2012-12-31  5:52     ` Austin Clements
2012-12-28 18:26 ` [PATCH v3 3/5] dump: Disallow \n in message IDs Austin Clements
2012-12-28 18:26 ` [PATCH v3 4/5] dump/restore: Use Xapian queries for batch-tag format Austin Clements
2012-12-28 18:26 ` Austin Clements [this message]

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