From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3DF4431FC2 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 05:03:05 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[none] autolearn=disabled Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id bkHxfRPvD60o for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 05:02:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from yantan.tethera.net (yantan.tethera.net [199.188.72.155]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7D357431FB6 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 05:02:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from remotemail by yantan.tethera.net with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1W6Jvv-0006gs-2O; Thu, 23 Jan 2014 09:02:59 -0400 Received: (nullmailer pid 10643 invoked by uid 1000); Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:02:55 -0000 From: David Bremner To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org Subject: [PATCH 2/2] man: update notmuch-dump man page for new default. Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 09:02:47 -0400 Message-Id: <1390482167-10473-2-git-send-email-david@tethera.net> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.5.2 In-Reply-To: <1390482167-10473-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net> References: <1390482167-10473-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net> X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:03:05 -0000 Actually the previous default was not documented explicitely. I moved the batch-tag section first because it seemed that the formats were previously documented in order default, other. --- man/man1/notmuch-dump.1 | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/man1/notmuch-dump.1 b/man/man1/notmuch-dump.1 index 0c52d1b..16e72eb 100644 --- a/man/man1/notmuch-dump.1 +++ b/man/man1/notmuch-dump.1 @@ -28,6 +28,34 @@ per line, followed by a list of tags. .RS 4 .TP 4 +.B batch-tag + +The default +.B batch-tag +dump format is intended to more robust against malformed message-ids +and tags containing whitespace or non-\fBascii\fR(7) characters. +Each line has the form + +.RS 4 +.RI "+<" "encoded-tag" "> " "" "+<" "encoded-tag" "> ... -- " "" " id:<" quoted-message-id > + +Tags are hex-encoded by replacing every byte not matching the regex +.B [A-Za-z0-9@=.,_+-] +with +.B %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 +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). + +.RE +.RE + +.RS 4 +.TP 4 .B sup The @@ -53,32 +81,6 @@ that tags with spaces will not be correctly restored with this format. .RE .RE -.RS 4 -.TP 4 -.B batch-tag - -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. -Each line has the form - -.RS 4 -.RI "+<" "encoded-tag" "> " "" "+<" "encoded-tag" "> ... -- " "" " id:<" quoted-message-id > - -Tags are hex-encoded by replacing every byte not matching the regex -.B [A-Za-z0-9@=.,_+-] -with -.B %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 -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). - -.RE With no search terms, a dump of all messages in the database will be -- 1.8.5.2