On Aug 21, 2005, at 8:45 PM, Phil Manicyrck wrote:
> Hmmm thanks for the info, well let me elaborate. I'm being brought in
> new to run the next development phase of this project which is lot of
> development merging into the existing source tree.
So you're trying to merge code that currently resides in Subversion
with code that currently resides in VSS?
> Based on my
> discussions with my client if I don't get the repository switched over
> by Tuesday, and this is a HUGE codebase of an existing, I need to
> convert the version history since as a new lead I am not familiar with
> the source tree and I'm trying to avoid the licensing issues. Any
> ideas?
I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "convert the version
history".
What licensing issues are you trying to avoid? How does the
underlying repository storing a source tree have anything to do with
licensing?
Not to sound negative, but I really think (safely) converting an SVN
repository to a VSS repository by Tuesday is going to be a Herculean
effort, and I doubt you're going to find many people on this list
willing to put in much effort to help you, as there just isn't much
interest out there in going from SVN to VSS, nor does anyone want to
deal with VSS for anything other than getting away from it. I know
that I personally wouldn't subject myself to undertaking such a
project even for large amounts of cash.
-Bill
>
> Thanks much,
> Phil Manicyrck, MCAD/MCSD.NET/MCSE
>
> On 8/21/05, William Nagel <bill@stagelogic.com> wrote:
>
>> One more thing,
>>
>> Repository conversions are inherently twitchy and error-prone in the
>> best of circumstances (and going from SVN to VSS is not the best of
>> circumstances). You really might want to strongly consider (or
>> convince your boss to consider) leaving the SVN repository up and
>> just commit the head of your development tree to the new VSS
>> repository. It will be a pain to deal with diffs and history
>> searches that go across repository boundaries, but you'll know with
>> 100% certainty that no data was lost or corrupted in the changeover.
>> Furthermore, over time the number of cross-repository checks that you
>> have to do will likely get asymptotically small.
>>
>> -Bill
>>
>>
>> On Aug 21, 2005, at 6:42 PM, Phil Manicyrck wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi All
>>>
>>> I need a subversion SVN file format to MS Visual SourceSafe 2005
>>> (VSS)
>>> file format converter. I cant just checkin the files; I need to have
>>> the complete revision, branch and label history exported from SVN
>>> and
>>> into VSS 2005. I'll need to get this done by Tuesday. Please let me
>>> know where the tools are to convert to VSS.
>>>
>>> Thanks much,
>>> Phil Manicyrck, MCAD/MCSD.NET/MCSE
>>>
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