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From: David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>
To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
Cc: notmuch <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: output file argument to notmuch dump.
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:25:45 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqi4q5xy.fsf@zancas.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yf6y5wtq76d.fsf@taco2.nixu.fi>

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On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:59:06 +0300, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:
> 
> In this case there would be 2 transitional syntaxes. IMHO 
> 
> 'notmuch dump <search-terms>' causes least transitional pain.
> 

I don't understand what you mean here. Can you elaborate?

  notmuch dump <search-terms> 

is not a transitional syntax, but rather a new syntax that breaks
existing scripts. 

The advantage of using -- here is that it allows things like

    notmuch dump --format=something-better -- --output

to search for --output (of course the query is then parsed a bit
surprisingly, but this is a different issue.)

d

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-10 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-07  0:20 output file argument to notmuch dump David Bremner
2011-10-07  0:37 ` Dmitry Kurochkin
2011-10-07  0:53   ` David Bremner
2011-10-07  1:43     ` Tom Prince
2011-10-07  1:14 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-10-07 10:23 ` Jesse Rosenthal
2011-10-07 11:15   ` Tomi Ollila
2011-10-07 17:22     ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-10-10  7:32       ` Tomi Ollila
2011-10-09 16:01 ` David Bremner
2011-10-10 13:49   ` david
2011-10-10 13:49     ` [PATCH 1/6] test: update dump-restore to use redirection instead of filename args david
2011-10-10 13:49     ` [PATCH 2/6] test: add tests for command line arguments to notmuch-dump david
2011-10-10 13:49     ` [PATCH 3/6] notmuch-dump: update handling of file name argument david
2011-10-10 13:49     ` [PATCH 4/6] notmuch-dump: treat any remaining arguments after the filename as search terms david
2011-10-10 13:49     ` [PATCH 5/6] test: all dump-restore tests should be working now david
2011-10-10 13:49     ` [PATCH 6/6] notmuch-dump: deprecate use of output file argument david
2011-10-16 20:34     ` Thomas Schwinge
2011-10-16 23:25       ` Re: David Bremner
2011-10-10 13:59   ` output file argument to notmuch dump Tomi Ollila
2011-10-10 14:25     ` David Bremner [this message]
2011-10-10 16:41   ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-10-11  2:12     ` David Bremner

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