From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Cc: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Subject: [PATCH 8/9] doc: document database.backup_dir
Date: Fri, 7 May 2021 08:30:28 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210507113029.2685184-9-david@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210507113029.2685184-1-david@tethera.net>
Most users will not need to change this, but documenting it helps
preserve the interface.
---
doc/man1/notmuch-config.rst | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/man1/notmuch-config.rst b/doc/man1/notmuch-config.rst
index 5cb6e203..a6cfeb41 100644
--- a/doc/man1/notmuch-config.rst
+++ b/doc/man1/notmuch-config.rst
@@ -65,6 +65,14 @@ paths are expanded relative to `$HOME` for items in section
Default: For compatibility with older configurations, the value of
database.path is used if **database.mail\_root** is unset.
+**database.backup_dir**
+ Directory to store tag dumps when upgrading database.
+
+ History: this configuration value was introduced in notmuch 0.32.
+
+ Default: A sibling directory of the Xapian database called
+ `backups`.
+
**database.hook_dir**
Directory containing hooks run by notmuch commands. See
--
2.30.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-07 11:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-07 11:30 Restore relative path handling for database.path David Bremner
2021-05-07 11:30 ` [PATCH 1/9] test: add known broken test for relative database path in new David Bremner
2021-05-07 12:19 ` Tomi Ollila
2021-05-07 11:30 ` [PATCH 2/9] lib/config: canonicalize paths relative to $HOME David Bremner
2021-05-07 12:28 ` Tomi Ollila
2021-05-07 16:16 ` Tomi Ollila
2021-05-07 11:30 ` [PATCH 3/9] test: add known broken test for relative setting of mail_root David Bremner
2021-05-07 11:30 ` [PATCH 4/9] lib/config: expand relative paths when reading from database David Bremner
2021-05-07 12:30 ` Tomi Ollila
2021-05-07 11:30 ` [PATCH 5/9] test: test relative paths for database.hook_dir David Bremner
2021-05-07 12:34 ` Tomi Ollila
2021-05-07 11:30 ` [PATCH 6/9] test: test explicit configuration of backup directory David Bremner
2021-05-07 11:30 ` [PATCH 7/9] doc: document (tersely) the intended behaviour of relative paths David Bremner
2021-05-07 15:31 ` David Edmondson
2021-05-07 11:30 ` David Bremner [this message]
2021-05-07 11:30 ` [PATCH 9/9] NEWS: start NEWS for 0.32.1 David Bremner
2021-05-10 14:42 ` Restore relative path handling for database.path David Bremner
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