Re: Revised dump-restore patches

Subject: Re: Revised dump-restore patches

Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:09:04 -0400

To: Jameson Graef Rollins, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:51:56 -0800, Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:

> It seems to me that as long as restore can detect what format the dump
> file is in, it shouldn't matter what the default dump format is, right?
> If someone makes a new dump in the new format, they'll presumably also
> be restoring with the new code that supports that format as well.  I'm
> having a hard time imagining a situation where moving to a new
> fully-supported default dump format would break anything.

Well, nmbug would break, to take a random example ;). I expect other
people parse the dump output for their own neferious purposes.

d

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David Bremner—Revised dump-restore patches [inbox, unread]
- David Bremner—[PATCH Draft 2 1/9] hex-escape: (en|de)code strings to/from restricted character set [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
- David Bremner—[PATCH Draft 2 2/9] test/hex-xcode: new test binary [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
- David Bremner—[PATCH Draft 2 3/9] test/hex-escaping: new test for hex escaping routines [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
- David Bremner—[PATCH Draft 2 4/9] notmuch-dump: add --format=(notmuch|sup) [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
- David Bremner—[PATCH Draft 2 5/9] test: add test for dump --format=notmuch [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
- David Bremner—[PATCH Draft 2 6/9] notmuch-restore: add --format=notmuch support [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
- David Bremner—[PATCH Draft 2 7/9] test: second set of dump/restore --format=notmuch tests [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
- David Bremner—[PATCH Draft 2 8/9] notmuch-restore: auto detect format of backup [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
- David Bremner—[PATCH Draft 2 9/9] test: add tests for restore --auto [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
- Jameson Graef Rollins—Re: Revised dump-restore patches [inbox, signed, unread]
  - David Bremner—Re: Revised dump-restore patches [inbox, unread]
    - David Bremner—New dump/restore format. [inbox, unread]
      - David Bremner—[PATCH v3 01/10] hex-escape: (en|de)code strings to/from restricted character set [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
      - David Bremner—[PATCH v3 02/10] test/hex-xcode: new test binary [inbox, notmuch::obsolete, notmuch::patch, unread]
      - David Bremner—[PATCH v3 03/10] test/hex-escaping: new test for hex escaping routines [inbox, notmuch::patch, notmuch::stale, unread]
      - David Bremner—[PATCH v3 04/10] notmuch-dump: add --format=(notmuch|sup) [inbox, notmuch::patch, notmuch::stale, unread]
        Austin Clements—Re: [PATCH v3 04/10] notmuch-dump: add --format=(notmuch|sup) [inbox, unread]
        David Bremner—Re: [PATCH v3 04/10] notmuch-dump: add --format=(notmuch|sup) [inbox, unread]
      - David Bremner—[PATCH v3 05/10] test: add test for dump --format=notmuch [inbox, notmuch::patch, notmuch::stale, unread]
      - David Bremner—[PATCH v3 06/10] notmuch-restore: add 'notmuch format' support, auto detect [inbox, notmuch::patch, notmuch::stale, unread]
      - David Bremner—[PATCH v3 07/10] test: second set of dump/restore --format=notmuch tests [inbox, notmuch::patch, notmuch::stale, unread]
      - David Bremner—[PATCH v3 08/10] notmuch-{dump, restore}.1: document new format options [inbox, notmuch::patch, notmuch::stale, unread]
      - David Bremner—[PATCH v3 09/10] random-dump.c: new test-binary to generate dump files [inbox, notmuch::patch, notmuch::stale, unread]
        Jani Nikula—Re: [PATCH v3 09/10] random-dump.c: new test-binary to generate dump files [inbox, unread]
        David Bremner—Re: [PATCH v3 09/10] random-dump.c: new test-binary to generate dump files [inbox, unread]
        Mark Walters—Re: [PATCH v3 09/10] random-dump.c: new test-binary to generate dump files [inbox, unread]
      - David Bremner—[PATCH v3 10/10] test: new random message-id and tags dump/restore test. [inbox, notmuch::patch, notmuch::stale, unread]