=item --reindex
-Forces a search engine re-index of all messages in the
-repository. This can be used for in-place upgrades while
+Forces a re-index of all messages in the inbox.
+This can be used for in-place upgrades and bugfixes while
NNTP/HTTP server processes are utilizing the index. Keep in
mind this roughly doubles the size of the already-large
-Xapian database.
+Xapian database. Running L<public-inbox-compact(1)>
+afterwards is recommended to release free space.
This does not touch the NNTP article number database.
All public-inbox-specific files are contained within the
C<$GIT_DIR/public-inbox/> directory.
-v2 repositories are described in L<public-inbox-v2-format>.
+v2 inboxes are described in L<public-inbox-v2-format>.
=head1 ENVIRONMENT
=head1 COPYRIGHT
-Copyright 2016-2019 all contributors L<mailto:meta@public-inbox.org>
+Copyright 2016-2020 all contributors L<mailto:meta@public-inbox.org>
License: AGPL-3.0+ L<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>