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merging - VSS to SVN...

From: Andrew Close <aclose_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-03-14 23:46:13 CET

Hi all,

we're currently using VSS and are planning on migrating to SVN. at
the moment we have one project using SVN and the rest of the company
is still using VSS; we're the guinea pigs. :)
one problem we're facing is that some of the code we're using
straddles VSS and SVN.
Project A started a new codebase in SVN composed of some existing code
and lots of new code. Project B is production code that still lives
in VSS for the rest of the dev team to carry on with their normal
tasks. when team B deploys to production team A wants to merge the
updates into their codebase so they don't fall too far out of sync.
this is really a simplification of what's currently going on, but i
think illustrates our problem.

what we've attempted to do is create a branch in SVN off of the
Project A codebase. checkout branch A' to a local workspace. overlay
the A' workspace with the source from the VSS repository and
add/commit so that A' now matches what came from VSS. we then attempt
to merge branch A' with A, but the merge appears to just overwrite the
code in A with A' even though there should be conflicts that need
resolving.

is this the right process? or maybe i should ask if there is 'a' process. :)
anyone have a suggestion on how to handle a situation like this? or a
doc/how-to that they could point me to? i've read through chpt 4 of
the redbook, but am apparently missing something...

thanks for any help
andy

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