Robert Kluver wrote:
I saw your post in the vss2svn users mailing list. I'm tryng to
convert VSS repository to SVN and I get the same error as you. There
are probably several destroyed files in our VSS repository along with
shared files. I assume by now you have fully switched over to SVN. Did
you manage to tweak the import or did you end up just moving the files
over to a new svn repository (without history)?
No, I did the dummy run, and concluded that as it was non-trivial I
would need to dedicate some more time to it, and do this after the new
year (i.e. will be trying again shortly).
I'll check again performance with any updated version (think I saw a
message on the list recently about a new one getting created), and if I
still get the same issues will go through and manually determine the
correct location for each of the incorrectly orphaned files/projects
(probably in the region of 50 to 200, hard to tell without doing it as
there are correct orphans too), and use this for a search/replace filter
program to run over the dump file to change the paths as appropriate.
Branches seemed to work as best as I could determine, but unpinned and
repinned files were often wrong. The way these are being used they can
easily be overwritten with the correctly pinned version from sourcesafe
after import, but incorrectly orphaned files/projects need to be fixed
before import so that "label" branches work correctly.
I'll be doing another dummy run in the next day or two, simply to answer
the question of whether to do the conversion before or after attempting
to merge a development branch onto the trunk (if the conversion had gone
better the first time, we may well have converted to Subversion before
this branch was created....)
Cc-ing to list in case anyone has better suggestions for the "false
orphan" problem that sometimes occurs after files/projects have been
recreated in the location of a deleted file/project that previously used
the same name.
--
Stephen Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Software Engineer, Vision Group - Pro-Measure Leader
Wilcox Associates Inc. (U.K.)
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