doc/users/joshtriplett/discussion.mdwn

@@ -1,28 +1,14 @@
 Can we please have a very brief HOWTO?
 
 I have a Moin wiki in /var/www/wiki and want to create an IkIwiki clone of it in /var/www/ikiwiki backed by a git repos in /data/ikiwiki.
-{{{
-fatal: ambiguous argument 'master': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
-Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
-fatal: ambiguous argument 'master': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
-Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
-fatal: Not a valid object name master
-Traceback (most recent call last):
-  File "/home/peterc/src/moin2iki/git-map", line 125, in <module>
-    if __name__ == "__main__": sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))
-  File "/home/peterc/src/moin2iki/git-map", line 117, in main
-    print git_map_file('commit', new_head)
-  File "/home/peterc/src/moin2iki/git-map", line 33, in git_map_file
-    f(inproc.stdout, outproc.stdin, sha, arg)
-  File "/home/peterc/src/moin2iki/git-map", line 64, in handle_commit
-    string, tree = lines.pop(0).split()
-IndexError: pop from empty list
-}}}
+
 I tried:
+
     mkdir /var/www/ikiwiki
     mkdir /data/ikiwiki
     PATH=.:/usr/lib/git-core:$PATH ./moin2iki /data/ikiwiki http://localhost/wiki
-but this failed. (BTW, I don't usually put . in my PATH).  The failure appears to be that the converter doesn't actually create an ikiwiki instance, but appears to want to update one:
+
+Help please!but this failed. (BTW, I don't usually put . in my PATH).  The failure appears to be that the converter doesn't actually create an ikiwiki instance, but appears to want to update one:
 
     fatal: ambiguous argument 'master': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
     Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
@@ -45,6 +31,7 @@ OK, so I created one:
     ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup
     .....
 This process created several files and directories in my home directory:
+
     wiki.git/
     public_html/wiki/
     wiki.setup
@@ -57,8 +44,23 @@ Following the instructions on the setup page, I did:
     mv ~/public_html/wiki /var/ikiwiki/
 
 then did again
+
     PATH=.:/usr/lib/git-core:$PATH ./moin2iki /data/ikiwiki/wiki http://www/wiki
+
 and saw no output, and no change to the filesystem.
 
+I'm totally confused.  It looks as though the script calls moin2git iff the target directory isn't there, but the script fails in interesting ways if it is.
+
+The other thing I saw was:
+
+    2009-12-04 09:00:31,542 WARNING MoinMoin.log:139 using logging configuration read from built-in fallback in MoinMoin.log module!
+    Traceback (most recent call last):
+      File "./moin2git", line 128, in <module>
+        if __name__ == '__main__': main(*sys.argv[1:])
+      File "./moin2git", line 43, in main
+        r = request.RequestCLI()
+    AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'RequestCLI'
+
+Moin version is 1.8.5
 
 Help please!