Re: [OT] Converting VSS to SVN

Nathan Kidd wrote:
> Kevin Greiner wrote:
>> On 2/2/06, Simon Large <simon@skirridsystems.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Unfortunately, the vss2svn.pl script seems to bomb out every time after
>>> about 50 revisions with an access-denied error from SVN in its
>>> working-working copy. How did you manage to convert 9,900 revisions?
>>
>> According to the developer that ran the script, we didn't encounter
>> this problem. However, I'm interested to know if you discovered a
>> workaround. Please post any conclusions to this list. Thanks.
>
> Details of the vss2svn.pl script problem (vss2svn.tigris.org, not
> Polarian's utility), are at
> http://vss2svn.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=562

And it's still failing in the same way. The version you recommended is
identical to the first one I tried. I may have a try at adding a retry
to the perl script, if I can learn a bit of perl fast enough.

FWIW polarion fails too. It creates a dumpfile, but svnadmin load fell
over importing r1592 with a checksum error. Looks like the polarion
converter is buggy. To compound the problem, the VSS database was
corrupt (surprise). After 'fixing' it so that Analyze reports no errors,
I was still getting missing versions reported by polarion. I think I may
have to give this up as a bad job and just import the latest tree
without history. Sigh.

Simon

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