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From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
To: Notmuch Mail <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: [PATCH] NEWS: document notmuch reindex
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 14:53:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171022185335.5597-1-dkg@fifthhorseman.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wp3nun5u.fsf@tethera.net>

Describe the introduction of the "reindex" subcommand.  This blurb
acknowledges Subject: instability under reindexing when multiple
copies exist (suggesting that this is something that needn't
necessarily hold up a release).
---
 NEWS | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 895b7627..27d75e3f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,19 @@ Out-of-tree builds
   has been dropped. The same can now be achieved more reliably using
   out-of-tree builds.
 
+Command Line Interface
+----------------------
+
+Support for re-indexing existing messages
+
+  There is a new subcommand, `notmuch reindex`, which re-indexes all
+  messages matching supplied search terms.  This permits users to
+  change the way specific messages are indexed.
+
+  Note that for messages with multiple variants in the message
+  archive, the recorded Subject: of may change upon reindexing,
+  depending on the order in which the variants are indexed.
+
 Encrypted Mail
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-- 
2.14.2

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-22 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-22 15:36 [PATCH] NEWS: cleartext indexing Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-10-22 17:07 ` David Bremner
2017-10-22 18:53   ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor [this message]
2017-12-24 14:07     ` [PATCH] NEWS: document notmuch reindex David Bremner
2017-10-30 12:46 ` [PATCH] NEWS: cleartext indexing Antoine Beaupré
2017-10-30 15:47   ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-10-30 16:16     ` Antoine Beaupré
2017-11-01  2:13       ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-11-23 14:21         ` Antoine Beaupré
2017-11-23 20:44           ` Antoine Beaupré

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