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Re: Visual SourceSafe -> Git?

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SSStephen Sinclair <radarsat1@gmail.com>
Date
May 27, 2008, 13:40 UTC
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Hi Chris,

I've done this using vss2svn: http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn/wiki/RunningTheMigration Then imported the svn using git-svn.

It works great, at least for my simple use case. Of course, the actually VSS history is pretty useless since no one at my company knows how to use version control (i.e., no comments) but at least it's there if I need it. :) I have no idea if this handles branching and such.

Steve

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Chris Hoffman <chris.c.hoffman@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hello,
>
> Is there a tutorial/script out there that would allow one to convert
> an old-and-busted VSS repo to Git?  I was thinking about going the
> subversion route, but I still have nightmares of the days when I was
> having to do complex merges.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Chris
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