From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>
Cc: notmuch <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: output file argument to notmuch dump.
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:59:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yf6y5wtq76d.fsf@taco2.nixu.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8739f2qhla.fsf@zancas.localnet> (David Bremner's message of "Sun, 09 Oct 2011 13:01:53 -0300")
On Sun 09 Oct 2011 19:01, David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca> writes:
> On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:20:40 -0300, David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca> wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to add a search term argument to notmuch dump (see
>> id:"87wrcijn1w.fsf@zancas.localnet" and followup for context). The
>> "notmuch" way would be to have
>>
>> notmuch dump <search-term>
>>
>> do the right thing
>
> Another option occured to me that is consistent at least with notmuch
> tag and notmuch show would be to support the following transitional
> syntaxes
>
> notmuch dump file
> notmuch dump file [--] search terms
> notmuch dump -- search terms
>
> the first two could then be deprecated, and eventually the syntax
>
> notmuch dump search terms
>
> could be enabled.
In this case there would be 2 transitional syntaxes. IMHO
'notmuch dump <search-terms>' causes least transitional pain.
> the question of whether to support
>
> notmuch dump --file foo.txt
>
> or something like
>
> notmuch --stdout=foo.txt dump
who about
notmuch [--output-file=<file>] <command> ...
> could be dealt with later.
>
> David
Tomi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-10 13:59 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 ` Tomi Ollila [this message]
2011-10-10 14:25 ` output file argument to notmuch dump David Bremner
2011-10-10 16:41 ` Jameson Graef Rollins
2011-10-11 2:12 ` David Bremner
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