Strategies for migrating TFS2005 to Subversion

Question

We are on TFS2005 and we are definitely not using all of it's capabilities. All we use it for right now is it's source code repository. For CI we are using CruiseControl as TFS2005 will not build .NET3.5 applications. Moving to TFS2010 is one of our considerations but we are also thinking of just moving to Subversion.

Anyone done a TFS to Subversion migration? Any tips to share? I would really like to move the history of files too but i tried using the tfs2svn tool without success. Anyone tried anything else?

Answer 1

If you understand the Team Foundation API, you can grab the vss2svn project from codeplex, and replace the VSS calls with TFS ones. It basically grabs a version 1 by 1 and adds them to SVN, thus keeping full history. As the app is a .NET one, the replacement calls should be very straightforward.

Its just a pity you can't get a refund for TFS :)