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Re: VSS to git

From
Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 2, 2009, 17:51 UTC
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2009/3/2 Chris Velevitch <chris.velevitch@gmail.com>:
> I can't seem to find any utilities to convert a vss repository to git.
> In the absence of such a tool, what is the best approach to converting
> an vss repository to git?

You might be able to two-stage through vss2svn[1], and from there to git. Or take the guts of vss2* [2] and rewrite the backend to create git fast-import format?

Mike

[1]http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn [2]http://sourceforge.net/projects/vss2cvs

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