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authorPatrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>2010-06-23 10:04:49 +0200
committerPatrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>2010-06-30 10:37:51 +0200
commit3db8fc1eac26192b2dc70e76d5b4519d4d7b255c (patch)
tree993dc1d838f7c91625604e6e3697d8baaadea058 /README.rst
parent96e71bdbb5cfe420684880fd10fef7d18aa8b299 (diff)
command line: allow temporary configs in import/export operations
Temporary source properties are needed when the config does not exist. This patch sets them before creating source nodes and documents this behavior.
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@@ -241,6 +241,15 @@ with additional options. <luid> here is the unique local identifier
assigned to each item in the source, transformed so that it contains
only alphanumeric characters, dash and underscore.
+<config> and <source> must be given, but they do not have to refer to
+existing configurations. In that case, the desired backend and must be
+give via "--source-property type=<backend>", like this::
+
+ syncevolution --print-items --source-property type=evolution-contacts dummy-config dummy-source
+
+The desired backend database can be chosen via "--source-property
+evolutionsource".
+
--print-items shows all existing items using one line per item using
the format "<luid>[: <short description>]". Whether the description
is available depends on the backend and the kind of data that it