doc: document the reason for --no-renumber

[public-inbox.git] / script / public-inbox-compact

diff --git a/script/public-inbox-compact b/script/public-inbox-compact
index d22e40323dfef08b513aea2d8a4c95f0137dc5a1..395eec37a4cff439cc2d1db1afbac81e9fb2fa95 100755 (executable)
--- a/script/public-inbox-compact
+++ b/script/public-inbox-compact
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ sub commit_changes ($$$) {
        $im->lock_release;
        remove_tree("$old/old") or die "failed to remove $old/old: $!\n";
 }
+
+# we rely on --no-renumber to keep docids synched to NNTP
 my @compact = qw(xapian-compact --no-renumber);
 if ($v == 2) {
        require PublicInbox::V2Writable;