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| There are two approaches to converting from Visual !SourceSafe to Mercurial. I recommend the multi hop approach since it uses more mature tools. | There are two approaches to converting from Visual !SourceSafe to Mercurial. I recommend the multi hop approach since it uses more mature tools. |
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| WARNING: The vss2svn script has evolved a lot since the vss2hg script forked and is now using the ssphys package to extract data from Visual !Source-Safe instead of the ss.exe solution that vss2hg is using (as of 1.03). | |
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| * http://trojanfoe.googlepages.com/visualsourcesafetomercurialmigrationtool | * http://trojanfoe.org.uk/vss2hg |
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| Attached is the 1.04 version with some fixes for running under Windows and a fix for a SourceSafe directory name length of 1. It has been tested with Windows 2003 server, SourcSafe 2005, and ActivePerl 5.10.1 [[attachment:vss2hg.pl]] |
Attached is the 1.04 version with some fixes for running under Windows and a fix for a SourceSafe directory name length of 1. It has been tested with Windows 2003 server, SourcSafe 2005, and ActivePerl 5.10.1 [[attachment:vss2hg.pl]] |
There are two approaches to converting from Visual SourceSafe to Mercurial. I recommend the multi hop approach since it uses more mature tools.
Multi Hop Approach (vss -> svn -> hg)
Follow the directions on the vss2svn-page to convert from Visual SourceSafe to Subversion. Then convert the Subversion repository to Mercurial.
Direct Approach (vss -> hg)
WARNING: The vss2svn script has evolved a lot since the vss2hg script forked and is now using the ssphys package to extract data from Visual !Source-Safe instead of the ss.exe solution that vss2hg is using (as of 1.03).
The vss2hg perl script converts a Visual SourceSafe project directly to a Mercurial repository and it is available from this page:
Please note that version 1.03 of this script is severely lacking when it comes to non-ascii file names and Visual Source Safe installations with non-us regional settings.. These issues have been fixed in vss2svn.
Attached is the 1.04 version with some fixes for running under Windows and a fix for a SourceSafe directory name length of 1. It has been tested with Windows 2003 server, SourcSafe 2005, and ActivePerl 5.10.1 vss2hg.pl