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Re: Which is the best tool /process to migrate VSS (with history) to Subversion

From: pjaytycy <pieterjan.busschaert_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 09:24:34 -0700 (PDT)

> Unless you have a compelling need for history, I'd suggest you do a
> simple export o a working copy from VSS to a simple export in
> Subversiont.
>

I would argue to keep the history. It's very frustrating if 50+% of the
times you use blame (to hopefully get some reasoning / context for a
particular code section), you end up with the absolutely useless "initial
import from <previous VCS>" .
Received on 2016-06-20 18:24:46 CEST

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