Hello, > From: nsnc_eee nsnc_eee [mailto:nsnc...@yahoo.co.in] > Sent: 17 June 2010 14:07 > Subject: VSS TO SVN Migration Info > > Hi, > > This is Sabrinath, i am working as a Build And Release > Engineer. I recently joined in other Company where they are > using VSS as Source Code repository and i'm new to this. In > my prev company we used SVN and i am satisfied with the SVN > and its Features. I am planing to Migrate the Source code > from VSS to SVN, i had few Q's regd this. > > 1) Is this safe to use Migration Tools to > Migrate Source code from VSS to SVN with revison history? > I have done this recently using a tool. While there may well be issues in the VSS archive that cause problems (mostly orphaned files), we have managed to convert all archives so far.
> 2) Please give me the best migration tool > that suites VSS to SVN Migartion with revison History? > I recommend you check out http://code.google.com/p/vss2svn/ This one works directly against the VSS files without requiring a VSS client and bunches file commits into svn revisions based on a time window (i.e. all updates within a few seconds are probably related). > 3) Will Subversion is configurable with > Eclipse easily? > Check out subclipse, here's a thread at stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/61320/svn-plugins-for-eclipse-subclip se-vs-subversive Good luck, ~ mark c
