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2020-02-06treewide: run update-copyrights from gnulib for 2019
I didn't wait until September to do it, this year!
2020-02-06doc: txt2pre: auto-linkify manpage references
This can be more convenient for people browsing HTML docs remotely or locally.
2020-02-04doc: recommend -compact after --reindex
It's likely a user will be low on space after running --reindex, so recommend the use of public-inbox-compact afterwards. And add a few more notes about using public-inbox-compact to clarify it's for inboxes-only (and not any old Xapian DBs) that using xapian-compact(1) directly is error-prone and likely to break things.
2019-05-24doc: add URLs for Xapian manpages
Since we go through the effort of hosting these manpages, link to them.
2019-05-24doc: xcpdb: add switch documentation
In particular, the '--compact' switch is really useful since it works without holding the inbox-wide lock for minutes at a time on giant inboxes (inboxes where copies can take dozens, if not hundreds of minutes).
2019-05-23doc: various updates to reflect current state
-index documentation avoid redundant v1 information and refers readers to apropriate v1/v2 manpages. Search::Xapian can also be optional, now, as only the PSGI search interface uses it. Favor "INBOX_DIR" where appropriate, since "REPO_DIR" can be confused for code repos which we also support. XAPIAN_FLUSH_THRESHOLD is documented for all relevant bulk commands.
2018-03-29public-inbox-compact: new tool for driving xapian-compact
Having multiple Xapian partitions is mostly pointless after the initial import. We can compact all the partitions into one while keeping the skeleton separate.