vss2svn worked well for us as well.
The only drawback was that it took so long to import the history (2-3 days
of runtime for one library) that we gave up and just did an import for most
of the libraries, discarding the history in favour of getting the project
done.
Rob.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Toby Johnson" <toby@etjohnson.us>
To: "Eric Hanchrow" <offby1@blarg.net>
Cc: <users@subversion.tigris.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: Migration from Source Safe
> Eric Hanchrow wrote:
>
> >I too had success with vss2svn. Note that there's caveat in there
> >somewhere -- something to the effect of you must un-ghost all the
> >folders. I ignored that, and it didn't work; when I finally did what
> >it said, and un-ghosted my folders, it worked. Took ages (overnight)
> >but the results were flawless and we've never looked back.
> >
> >
> Please note that vss2svn (which I wrote) and vss2svn2 (a
> somewhat-derivative work by a couple others) are two separate projects
> (the latter is what was referenced in this thread). I wish they would
> have chosen a different project name to differentiate the two, because
> I'm sure people will remain confused about this.
>
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