{"thread":{"id":"18094","subject":"VSS to git","startedAt":"2009-03-02T17:15:19Z","lastAt":"2012-11-05T22:08:39Z","messageCount":5,"participants":["Chris Velevitch","Michael J Gruber","Mike Ralphson","Alexander Gavrilov","victorcruz"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"106713","messageId":"b0a3bf780903020915g60d97b76pfdbbd60017625f0a@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"18094","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"VSS to git","fromName":"Chris Velevitch","fromEmail":"chris.velevitch@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-03-02T17:15:19Z","receivedAt":"2009-03-02T17:15:19Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"chris.velevitch@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"I can't seem to find any utilities to convert a vss repository to git.\nIn the absence of such a tool, what is the best approach to converting\nan vss repository to git?\n\n\nChris\n--\nChris Velevitch\nManager - Adobe Platform Users Group, Sydney\nm: 0415 469 095\nwww.apugs.org.au\n\nAdobe Platform Users Group, Sydney\nMar meeting: Bzoo, FlashDevelop, Who's Doing What With AIR and Eclipse Tips\nDate: Mon 30th Mar 6pm for 6:30 start\nDetails and RSVP on http://groups.adobe.com/posts/db02e98146\n"},{"id":"106714","messageId":"49AC1BFE.2040601@drmicha.warpmail.net","threadId":"18094","inReplyTo":"b0a3bf780903020915g60d97b76pfdbbd60017625f0a@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: VSS to git","fromName":"Michael J Gruber","fromEmail":"git@drmicha.warpmail.net","sentAt":"2009-03-02T17:48:46Z","receivedAt":"2009-03-02T17:48:46Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"git@grubix.eu","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/233215?v=4"},"body":"Chris Velevitch venit, vidit, dixit 02.03.2009 18:15:\n> I can't seem to find any utilities to convert a vss repository to git.\n> In the absence of such a tool, what is the best approach to converting\n> an vss repository to git?\n\nDepending on the complexity of your vss repo, going through svn may be\nan option, see\n\nhttp://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/5/27/1952124\n\nwhich points at\n\nhttp://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn\n\nUsing those pieces you may even be able to produce a fast-exporter for\nvss, whose output you could feed into git-fast-import (vss2svn already\ncreates an svn dump file).\n\nMichael\n"},{"id":"106715","messageId":"e2b179460903020951h7f1538daya4d3cdb96fc7c65d@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"18094","inReplyTo":"b0a3bf780903020915g60d97b76pfdbbd60017625f0a@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: VSS to git","fromName":"Mike Ralphson","fromEmail":"mike.ralphson@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-03-02T17:51:12Z","receivedAt":"2009-03-02T17:51:12Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"mike.ralphson@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/21603?v=4"},"body":"2009/3/2 Chris Velevitch :\n> I can't seem to find any utilities to convert a vss repository to git.\n> In the absence of such a tool, what is the best approach to converting\n> an vss repository to git?\n\nYou might be able to two-stage through vss2svn[1], and from there to git.\nOr take the guts of vss2* [2] and rewrite the backend to create git\nfast-import format?\n\nMike\n\n[1]http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn\n[2]http://sourceforge.net/projects/vss2cvs\n"},{"id":"106721","messageId":"200903022155.31771.angavrilov@gmail.com","threadId":"18094","inReplyTo":"e2b179460903020951h7f1538daya4d3cdb96fc7c65d@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: VSS to git","fromName":"Alexander Gavrilov","fromEmail":"angavrilov@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-03-02T18:55:31Z","receivedAt":"2009-03-02T18:55:31Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"angavrilov@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/42666?v=4"},"body":"On Monday 02 March 2009 20:51:12 Mike Ralphson wrote:\n> 2009/3/2 Chris Velevitch :\n> > I can't seem to find any utilities to convert a vss repository to git.\n> > In the absence of such a tool, what is the best approach to converting\n> > an vss repository to git?\n> \n> You might be able to two-stage through vss2svn[1], and from there to git.\n> Or take the guts of vss2* [2] and rewrite the backend to create git\n> fast-import format?\n\nLast year I experimented with conversion using vss2svn plus a heavily\npatched version of git-svnimport, and it worked quite well. The largest\nproblem is that VSS cannot record directory copies, so the resulting\nSVN repository does not have them either. This makes conversion tools\nunable to detect any branching, so I had to implement support for\ncompletely arbitrary mapping specs.\n\nI also made an incremental synchronization script for simple actions\n(requires logging to be enabled in VSS).\n\nAlexander\n\nP.S: I made some fixes to vss2svn too, they are in a separate branch:\n http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn/browser/branches/Alexander\n"},{"id":"202568","messageId":"1352153319414-7570605.post@n2.nabble.com","threadId":"18094","inReplyTo":"b0a3bf780903020915g60d97b76pfdbbd60017625f0a@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: VSS to git","fromName":"victorcruz","fromEmail":"vitycruz@gmail.com","sentAt":"2012-11-05T22:08:39Z","receivedAt":"2012-11-05T22:08:39Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"vitycruz@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"To migrate from VSS to GIT can use the following script to run on windows:\nhttps://github.com/victorcruz/vsstogit\n\n\n\n--\nView this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/VSS-to-git-tp2410442p7570605.html\nSent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com.\n"}]}