Hi Jim, the RCS file provider zip includes a small utility class to perform the migration from RCS to VersioningFileProvider. It doesn't touch the original repository so maybe you'll want to take a look at it. Never used it myself, but at the very least should give you a starting point.
HTH, juan pablo On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Jim Wise <jw...@draga.com> wrote: > Thank you, Juan Pablo -- I'll give this a shot in the morning! > > As Harry suggested, I'll try to work out a migration path in the longer > run -- presumably via a script to check out the successive versions to the > new-format document directory and synthesize a properties file from the RCS > log -- but this buys me time to do so! > > Jim Wise > jw...@draga.com > > Sent from my iPhone. > Digital signature available upon request. > > > On Jun 4, 2014, at 6:37, Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez < > juanpablo.san...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Jim, > > > > I've attached the old RCSFileProvider to > > https://jspwiki-wiki.apache.org/Wiki.jsp?page=RCS%20File%20provider , > > reachable through > > https://jspwiki-wiki.apache.org/Wiki.jsp?page=ContributedProviders > > > > It contains a small maven project (sources + binaries) with the provider > + > > the ProviderConverter util (from RCS to VersioningFileProvider) classes > > that were available on 2.9. You'll have to add it to your WEB-INF/lib or > > reference it through the jspwiki.plugin.externalJars property, and > > obviously configure the RCS file provider on jspwiki(-custom).properties, > > as you were doing before. > > > > Please keep in mind that this functionality is *not* mantained by the > > JSPWiki team. Anyone willing to enhance the (almost non-existent) > > documentation, to fix bugs, improve the provider, etc. will be gladly > > welcome. > > > > > > HTH, > > juan pablo > > > > > > > >> On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Harry Metske <harry.met...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Jim, > >> > >> I am not aware of any migration path from RCS provider to something > else. I > >> think that would require some scripting to convert RCS to > >> VersioningFileProvider format directory structure and file contents. > >> Our recommendation is VersioningFileProvider, that one supports all you > >> ask. > >> Their are other providers, that are not core providers and thus not > >> supported by the JSPWiki team at : > >> https://jspwiki-wiki.apache.org/Wiki.jsp?page=ContributedProviders > >> > >> regards, > >> Harry > >> > >> > >> > >>> On 31 May 2014 23:33, Jim Wise <jw...@draga.com> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hello all, > >>> > >>> I suspect this may be a FAQ, but I couldn’t find anything about this on > >>> the Wiki or mailing list archives. > >>> > >>> I have a JSPWiki installation which has been running since August of > >> 2009, > >>> using the RCSFileProvider. I have successfully upgraded the JSPWiki > >>> installation several times, and have migrated successfully across > >>> underlying OS platforms and Java Web environments. I am currently > >> running > >>> JSPWiki 2.9.1 on RHEL 6, under Tomcat. > >>> > >>> To date, I have been using RCSFileProvider for this installation, and > >> have > >>> accumulated nearly five years of history in this provider. > >>> > >>> Given the removal of RCSFileProvider in 2.10, I am looking for > >>> recommendations for migration strategy. In particular: > >>> > >>> * *Is there a migration path from the JSPWiki 2.9 RCSFileProvider to > the > >>> JSPWiki 2.10 VersioningFileProvider which preserves page history, > >> including > >>> users and modification timestamps on historical revisions (this is the > >>> important question, as this is blocking upgrade to the current > version)?* > >>> > >>> * Is there another page provider which you would recommend, in place of > >>> VersioningFileProvider, assuming my goal is to support versioning, with > >>> preservation of modification timestamps and modifying user over the > next > >> N > >>> years of this JSPWiki installation? > >>> > >>> Thanks in advance for any recommendations, > >>> -- > >>> Jim Wise > >>> jw...@draga.com > >> >
