NAME¶
notmuch-restore - restores the tags from the given file (see notmuch dump)
SYNOPSIS¶
notmuch restore [--accumulate] [--format=(auto|batch-tag|sup)]
[--input=<
filename>]
DESCRIPTION¶
Restores the tags from the given file (see
notmuch dump).
The input is read from the given filename, if any, or from stdin.
Supported options for
restore include
- --accumulate
- The union of the existing and new tags is applied, instead of replacing
each message's tags as they are read in from the dump file.
- --format=(sup|batch-tag|auto)
- Notmuch restore supports two plain text dump formats, with each line
specifying a message-id and a set of tags. For details of the actual
formats, see notmuch-dump(1).
- sup
- The sup dump file format is specifically chosen to be compatible
with the format of files produced by sup-dump. So if you've previously
been using sup for mail, then the notmuch restore command provides
you a way to import all of your tags (or labels as sup calls them).
- batch-tag
- The batch-tag dump format is intended to more robust against
malformed message-ids and tags containing whitespace or non-
ascii(7) characters. See notmuch-dump(1) for details on this
format.
notmuch restore updates the maildir flags according to tag changes
if the maildir.synchronize_flags configuration option is enabled.
See notmuch-config(1) for details.
- auto
- This option (the default) tries to guess the format from the input. For
correctly formed input in either supported format, this heuristic, based
the fact that batch-tag format contains no parentheses, should be
accurate.
notmuch restore will detect if the input is compressed in
gzip(1)
format and automatically decompress it while reading. This detection does not
depend on file naming and in particular works for standard input.
SEE ALSO¶
notmuch(1),
notmuch-config(1),
notmuch-count(1),
notmuch-dump(1),
notmuch-hooks(5),
notmuch-insert(1),
notmuch-new(1),
notmuch-reply(1),
notmuch-search(1),
notmuch-search-terms(7),
notmuch-show(1),
notmuch-tag(1)
AUTHOR¶
Carl Worth and many others
COPYRIGHT¶
2014, Carl Worth and many others