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| author | Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net> | 2020-07-24 05:55:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net> | 2020-07-25 20:48:18 +0000 |
| commit | b02c7a346bd36f1325518ca110a781c619082da1 (patch) | |
| tree | 86b3a2868db2996e864bfa94056addc511ae5596 /Documentation | |
| parent | 0ad076b1943bf7c65868d1db3cef4bd0ea1ef49a (diff) | |
| download | public-inbox-b02c7a346bd36f1325518ca110a781c619082da1.tar.gz | |
Older versions of public-inbox < 1.3.0 had subtly different semantics around threading in some corner cases. This switch (when combined with --reindex) allows us to fix them by regenerating associations.
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/public-inbox-index.pod | 23 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/public-inbox-index.pod b/Documentation/public-inbox-index.pod index ff2e5486..08f2fbf4 100644 --- a/Documentation/public-inbox-index.pod +++ b/Documentation/public-inbox-index.pod @@ -68,12 +68,25 @@ Xapian database. Using this with C<--compact> or running L<public-inbox-compact(1)> afterwards is recommended to release free space. -public-inbox protects writes to various indices with L<flock(2)>, -so it is safe to reindex while L<public-inbox-watch(1)>, -L<public-inbox-mda(1)> or L<public-inbox-learn(1)> run. +public-inbox protects writes to various indices with +L<flock(2)>, so it is safe to reindex (and rethread) while +L<public-inbox-watch(1)>, L<public-inbox-mda(1)> or +L<public-inbox-learn(1)> run. -This does not touch the NNTP article number database or -affect threading. +This does not touch the NNTP article number database. +It does not affect threading unless C<--rethread> is +used. + +=item --rethread + +Regenerate internal THREADID and message thread associations +when reindexing. + +This fixes some bugs in older versions of public-inbox. While +it is possible to use this without C<--reindex>, it makes little +sense to do so. + +Available in public-inbox 1.6.0 (PENDING). =item --prune |