[Dovecot] doveadm fts optimize undocumented

[Dave Abrahams]

on Tue Dec 04 2012, Timo Sirainen <tss-AT-iki.fi> wrote:

> On 4.12.2012, at 18.59, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>
>> on Tue Dec 04 2012, Timo Sirainen <tss-AT-iki.fi> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 4.12.2012, at 18.46, Dave Abrahams wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Subject says all.  Timo, would you write something up where the world
>>>> will find it?  Also, it would be great if doveadm fts was covered in the
>>>> doveadm manpage.
>>> 
>>> It runs the Lucene's optimize function with fts-lucene backend. Does
>>> nothing with others. Basically I think it just gathers multiple Lucene
>>> index files together and packs them into a single file, dropping all
>>> deleted data (Lucene documentation has more details I think). Similar
>>> to what "doveadm purge" does to mdbox files. fts-lucene runs the
>>> optimize also internally automatically once in a while, so I'm not
>>> sure if that doveadm command should necessarily even exist.
>> 
>> I think the answer lies in your perception of benefits vs maintainance
>> (including documentation) costs... ;-)
>
> Based on the awesome explanation I just gave, I wouldn't mind if
> someone converts something based on it to a man page patch!

The lack of a working Git mirror really raises the barrier for me to
contribute.  I was just wondering if you had tried to reinstate it with
a recent version of the hggit plugin?  It appears to be officially under
development at https://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git...

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