X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/31826c8b975245efb8e578efa037a2ce5c088b83..1226d9f144310876080c077a9c45bd2257829a32:/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress/discussion.mdwn b/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress/discussion.mdwn index 0e9c8b756..09e6f6742 100644 --- a/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/Importing_posts_from_Wordpress/discussion.mdwn @@ -26,4 +26,4 @@ etc. (Removed now dead info and blah blah.) -> It works fine.... The script is picky about having everything in proper UTF-8, **and** proper XML and HTML escaping. You need that to have a successful import. I let Emacs remove DOS line endings, and it works OK (if on *nix of some sort, of course). Thing is with this `git fast-import`, is that you have to `git reset` afterwards, (let's say you put them in posts/) `git checkout posts`, `git add posts`, then commit. I don't know if this a characteristic with `git fast-import`, but this is the way I get my posts to exist on the filesystem. If I don't do this, then I lose the data. --[[users/simonraven]] +> It works fine.... The script is picky about having everything in proper UTF-8, **and** proper XML and HTML escaping. You need that to have a successful import. I let Emacs remove DOS line endings, and it works OK (if on *nix of some sort, of course). Thing is with this `git fast-import`, is that you have to `git reset` afterwards, (let's say you put them in posts/) `git checkout posts`, `git add posts`, then commit. I don't know if this a characteristic with `git fast-import`, but this is the way I get my posts to exist on the filesystem. If I don't do this, then I lose the data. If you get that "Not updating..." error, then just --force the import in. --[[users/simonraven]]