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NOTMUCH-GIT

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
SUBCOMMANDS
REPOSITORY CONTENTS
Version 0
Version 1
REPOSITORY LOCATION
PREFIX VALUE
ENVIRONMENT
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT

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NAME

notmuch-git - manage notmuch tags with git

SYNOPSIS

notmuch git [-h] [-N] [-C repo ] [-p prefix ] [-v] [-l log level ] subcommand

nmbug [-h] [-C repo ] [-p prefix ] [-v] [-l log level ] subcommand

DESCRIPTION

Manage notmuch tags with Git.

OPTIONS

Supported options for notmuch git include
-h, --help

show help message and exit

-N, --nmbug

Set defaults for --tag-prefix and --git-dir suitable for the notmuch bug tracker

-C <repo>, --git-dir <repo>

Operate on git repository repo . See REPOSITORY LOCATION for defaults.

-p <prefix>, --tag-prefix <prefix>

Operate only on tags with prefix prefix . See PREFIX VALUE for defaults.

-v, --version

show notmuch-git's version number and exit

-l <level>, --log-level <level>

Log verbosity, one of: critical , error , warning , info , debug . Defaults to warning .

SUBCOMMANDS

For help on a particular subcommand, run: 'notmuch-git ... <command> --help'.
archive [tree-ish] [arg ...]

Dump a tar archive of a committed tag set using 'git archive'. See REPOSITORY CONTENTS for details of the archive contents.

tree-ish

The tree or commit to produce an archive for. Defaults to 'HEAD'.

arg

If present, any optional arguments are passed through to - git-archive(1). Arguments to git-archive are reordered so that tree-ish comes last.

checkout [-f|--force]

Update the notmuch database from git.

This is mainly useful to discard your changes in notmuch relative to git.

[-f|--force]

Override checks that prevent modifying tags for large fractions of messages in the database. See also git.safe_fraction .

clone <repository>

Create a local notmuch git repository from a remote source.

This wraps 'git clone', adding some options to avoid creating a working tree while preserving remote-tracking branches and upstreams.

repository

The (possibly remote) repository to clone from. See the URLS section of git-clone(1) for more information on specifying repositories.

commit [-f|--force] [message]

Commit prefix-matching tags from the notmuch database to git.

message

Optional text for the commit message.
-f|--force

Override checks that prevent modifying tags for large fractions of messages in the database. See also git.safe_fraction .

fetch [remote]

Fetch changes from the remote repository.

remote

Override the default configured in branch.<name>.remote to fetch from a particular remote repository (e.g. origin ).

help

Show brief help for an notmuch git command.
init [--format-version=N]

Create an empty notmuch git repository.

This wraps 'git init' with a few extra steps to support subsequent status and commit commands.

--format-version=N

Create a repo in format version N. By default notmuch-git uses the highest supported version, which is the best choice for most use-cases.

log [arg ...]

A wrapper for 'git log'.

arg

Additional arguments are passed through to 'git log'.

After running notmuch git fetch , you can inspect the changes with

$ notmuch git log HEAD..@{upstream}

merge [reference]

Merge changes from 'reference' into HEAD and load the result into notmuch.

reference

Reference, usually other branch heads, to merge into our branch. Defaults to @{upstream} .

pull [repository] [refspec ...]

Pull (merge) remote repository changes to notmuch.

pull is equivalent to fetch followed by merge . We use the git-configured repository for your current branch ( branch.<name>.repository , likely origin , and branch.<name>.merge , likely master or main ).

repository

The "remote" repository that is the source of the pull. This parameter can be either a URL (see the section GIT URLS in - git-pull(1)) or the name of a remote (see the section REMOTES in - git-pull(1)).
refspec

Refspec (usually a branch name) to fetch and merge. See the refspec entry in the OPTIONS section of git-pull(1) for other possibilities.

push [repository] [refspec]

Push the local notmuch git git state to a remote repository.

repository

The "remote" repository that is the destination of the push. This parameter can be either a URL (see the section GIT URLS in - git-push(1)) or the name of a remote (see the section REMOTES in - git-push(1)).
refspec

Refspec (usually a branch name) to push. See the refspec entry in the OPTIONS section of git-push(1) for other possibilities.

status

Show pending updates in notmuch or git repo.

Prints lines of the form
ng Message-Id tag

where n is a single character representing notmuch database status

A

Tag is present in notmuch database, but not committed to git (equivalently, tag has been deleted in git repo, e.g. by a pull, but not restored to notmuch database).

D

Tag is present in git repo, but not restored to notmuch database (equivalently, tag has been deleted in notmuch).

U

Message is unknown (missing from local notmuch database).

The second character g (if present) represents a difference between local and upstream branches. Typically notmuch git fetch needs to be run to update this.

a

Tag is present in upstream, but not in the local git branch.

d

Tag is present in local git branch, but not upstream.

REPOSITORY CONTENTS

The tags are stored in the git repo (and exported) as a set of empty files. These empty files are contained within a directory named after the message-id.

In what follows encode() represents a POSIX filesystem safe encoding. The encoding preserves alphanumerics, and the characters +-_@=.,: . All other octets are replaced with % followed by a two digit hex number.

Currently notmuch-git can read any format version, but can only create (via init ) version 1 repositories.

Version 0

This is the legacy format created by the nmbug tool prior to release 0.37. For a message with Message-Id id , for each tag tag , there is an empty file with path

tags/ encode ( id ) / encode ( tag )

Version 1

In format version 1 and later, the format version is contained in a top level file called FORMAT.

For a message with Message-Id id , for each tag tag , there is an empty file with path

tags/ hash1 ( id ) / hash2 ( id ) encode ( id ) / encode ( tag )

The hash functions each represent one byte of the blake2b hex digest.

Compared to version 0 , this reduces the number of subdirectories within each directory.

REPOSITORY LOCATION

notmuch-git uses the first of the following with a non-empty value to locate the git repository.

	•		Option --git-dir .
	•		Environment variable NOTMUCH_GIT_DIR .
	•		Configuration item git.path
	•		If invoked as nmbug or with the --nmbug option, $HOME/.nmbug ; otherwise $XDG_DATA_HOME/notmuch/$NOTMUCH_PROFILE/git .

PREFIX VALUE

notmuch-git uses the first of the following with a non-null value to define the tag prefix.

	•		Option --tag-prefix .
	•		Environment variable NOTMUCH_GIT_PREFIX .
	•		Configuration item git.tag_prefix .
	•		If invoked as nmbug or with the --nmbug option, notmuch:: , otherwise the empty string.

ENVIRONMENT

Variable NOTMUCH_PROFILE influences REPOSITORY LOCATION . If it is unset, 'default' is assumed.
NOTMUCH_GIT_DIR

Default location of git repository. Overridden by --git-dir .

NOTMUCH_GIT_PREFIX

Default tag prefix (filter). Overridden by --tag-prefix .

SEE ALSO

notmuch , notmuch-dump , notmuch-restore , notmuch-tag

AUTHOR

Carl Worth and many others

COPYRIGHT

2009-2025, Carl Worth and many others

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