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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress.mdwn | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/tips/inside_dot_ikiwiki/discussion.mdwn | 7 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress.mdwn b/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress.mdwn index 59330caa4..8774c9723 100644 --- a/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress.mdwn @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Use case: You want to move away from Wordpress to Ikiwiki as your blogging/website platform, but you want to retain your old posts. -[This](http://git.chris-lamb.co.uk/?p=ikiwiki-wordpress-import.git) is a simple tool that generates [git-fast-import](http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-fast-import.html)-compatible data from a WordPress export XML file. It retains creation time of each post, so you can use Ikiwiki's <tt>--getctime</tt> to get the preserve creation times on checkout. +[This](http://git.chris-lamb.co.uk/?p=ikiwiki-wordpress-import.git) is a simple tool that generates [git-fast-import](http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-fast-import.html)-compatible data from a WordPress export XML file. It retains creation time of each post, so you can use Ikiwiki's <tt>--gettime</tt> to get the preserve creation times on checkout. WordPress categories are mapped onto Ikiwiki tags. The ability to import comments is planned. diff --git a/doc/tips/inside_dot_ikiwiki/discussion.mdwn b/doc/tips/inside_dot_ikiwiki/discussion.mdwn index 34d5b9252..69df369ec 100644 --- a/doc/tips/inside_dot_ikiwiki/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/inside_dot_ikiwiki/discussion.mdwn @@ -6,14 +6,15 @@ My database appears corrupted: No idea how this happened. I've blown it away and recreated it but, for future reference, is there any less violent way to recover from this situation? I miss having the correct created and last edited times. --[[sabr]] > update: fixed ctimes and mtimes using [these instructions](http://u32.net/Mediawiki_Conversion/Git_Import/#Correct%20Creation%20and%20Last%20Edited%20time) --[[sabr]] -> That's overly complex. Just run `ikiwiki -setup your.setup -getctime`. +> That's overly complex. Just run `ikiwiki -setup your.setup -gettime`. > BTW, I'd be interested in examining such a corrupt storable file to try > to see what happened to it. --[[Joey]] ->> --getctime appears to only set the last edited date. It's not supposed to set the creation date, is it? The only place that info is stored is in the git repo. +>> --gettime appears to only set the last edited date. It's not supposed to set the creation date, is it? The only place that info is stored is in the git repo. >>> Pulling the page creation date out of the git history is exactly what ->>> --getctime does. --[[Joey]] +>>> --gettime does. (It used to be called --getctime, and only do that; now +>>> it also pulls out the last modified date). --[[Joey]] >> Alas, I seem to have lost the bad index file to periodic /tmp wiping; I'll send it to you if it happens again. --[[sabr]] |