There’s a difference between looking at competing product’s source code and solely developing an open source product such as ASP.NET MVC. The former can lead to what we call ‘taint’. If code or ideas inadvertently (whether deliberately or not) end up in a product such as TFS, and that code or ideas ended up infringing on someone else’s copyright or patent, Microsoft now leaves itself open to be sued.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Banks Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 3:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Source code migration from SVN to TFS >> We contacted Microsoft, but they will not write a migration path for SVN due >> to legal issues of having SVN source in house, compromising TFS. Pfft. SVN is open source. You don’t need to bring it in house to see the source, you can just browse it on the web (http://svn.collab.net/viewvc/svn/trunk/). Also, the license for SVN is hardly restrictive (http://subversion.tigris.org/license-1.html) so they could do just about anything they like with it and it wouldn’t “infect” TFS. My guess is that SVN to TFS migration just isn’t anywhere near being a priority and being worth development dollars. Blaming it on licensing issues is just a marketing ploy. ScottGu and the ASP.NET MVC team seem to be dealing with the legality issues of integrating with open source just fine. Not that this helps you, of course :-( Regards, Richard Banks CSM | CSP | http://richardsbraindump.blogspot.com<http://richardsbraindump.blogspot.com/> | http://twitter.com/rbanks54 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matthew Rowan Sent: Monday, 19 January 2009 10:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Source code migration from SVN to TFS We went down this path, and I believe tried out that product also, but it was so riddled with bugs, it just wasted our time. TFS Migration toolkit was also disappointing, but maybe the later version is better. We contacted Microsoft, but they will not write a migration path for SVN due to legal issues of having SVN source in house, compromising TFS. We ended up unfortunately abandoning our history and starting clean in TFS. We have just left SVN live, if people really need to see the older history they can go to SVN. Although, we generally haven't really found a need for it. On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Dave Zimmerman <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Have you investigated Kryosoft's tool: SVN-2-TFS? http://www.kyrosoft.com/ _________________________ Dave Zimmerman office: 651.994.8558 x32 mobile: 651.246.2378 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.intertech.com/ Instructors Who Consult. | Consultants Who Teach.™ Come join us at the vstsMN User Group (http://vstsmn.net<http://vstsmn.net/>) From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Dylan Tusler Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 9:13 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Source code migration from SVN to TFS I'm sure this comes up from time to time. I was googling on the subject, and there appear to have been a number of small apps developed in the past to assist with migrating code from Subversion to TFS, but I didn't see any stand-outs, and some that I checked seem to be completely dead now. Has anyone done this kind of migration recently? And have any input? What (apart from cracking open the TFS Migration Toolkit and DIYing it) are the best options? We are amalgamating with another council that has some of their source code in SVN, and it would be nice to migrate it. Ta, Dylan Tusler Team Leader - Development, Data and Integration Unit Information Technology Sunshine Coast Regional Council ph: +61 (0)7 5441 8202 "Your Technology Solutions Partner" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Sunshine Coast Regional Council is now open for business. There is nothing you need to do as we have taken care of everything for you to ensure it is business as usual. 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