Jeff,
NiFi gives users the ability to create snapshot backups of their
flow.xml through the "back-up flow" link found under the "controller
settings" (Icon looks like wrench and screwdriver in upper right corner).
The default nifi.properties configuration will write these back-ups to a
directory called archive inside teh <nifi-root-install>/conf directory, but
you can of course change were they are written.
Matt
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 4:52 PM, Jeff - Data Bean Australia <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Oleg for sharing this. They are definitely useful.
>
> By my question focused more on keeping the data flow definition files'
> versions, so that Data Flow Developers, or NiFi Cluster Manager in NiFi's
> term can keep track of our work.
>
> Currently I am using the following command line to generate a formatted
> XML to put it into our Git repository:
>
> cat conf/flow.xml.gz | gzip -dc | xmllint --format -
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Oleg Zhurakousky <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Jeff, what you are describing is in works and actively discussed
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Extension+Registry
>> and
>>
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NIFI/Component+documentation+improvements
>>
>> The last one may not directly speaks to the “ExtensionRegistry”, but if
>> you look through he comments there is a whole lot about it since it is
>> dependent.
>> Feel free to participate, but I can say for now that it is slated for 1.0
>> release.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Oleg
>>
>> On Feb 17, 2016, at 3:08 PM, Jeff - Data Bean Australia <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As my NiFi data flow becomes more and more serious, I need to put on
>> Version Control. Since flow.xml.gz is generated automatically and it is
>> saved in a compressed file, I am wondering what would be the best practice
>> regarding version control?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeff
>>
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