Moving from VSS to SVN

Question

I need to write a script to make a source safe project ready to be moved to subversion, what do I need to do so far I can think of:

• remove .scc files
• remove .vspcc files

Do I need to remove the "read-only" attribute of all the files as well, or will that not matter?

What language would you write this script in, I was planning to do it in python (os.walk is great), but maybe powershell would be more appropriate to chnage file attributes on windows (if I need to)?

Is there anything else you can think of that needs to be done before I move the project to SVN?

Answer 1

http://www.poweradmin.com/sourcecode/vssmigrate.aspx

Answer 2

The best thing you could do is a clean export of all the files in the repository. Blow away anything that is VSS.

Once you've done that then just do a subversion import and you'll be ready to go. If you write a script you'll just have one more maintenance & failure point. Thus my preference for just doing a clean import.

Answer 3

For a manual migration (or to understand what happens) :

• remove "read-only" attribute for all files
• remove *.scc
• remove *.vssscc
• remove *.vspscc
• delete *.suo
• remove "SourceCodeControl..." section from your solution.sln file
• remove "SccProjectName..." section from your projects.csproj files

Answer 4

I also have a hard drive with a bunch of VSS projects that I want to move to SVN projects.

Couldn't you just use Vss2Svn? It sounds like this will convert VSS projects to SVN, but I have not tried it and have not heard anything about it. Has anyone tried this to move from VSS to SVN? Or is it better to do it manually?