Thanks for the response Dirk. On Tuesday 18 April 2006 09:55, Dirk wrote: > you probably have followed this mailinglist a little. The next major > step in the vss2svn converter is to directly decode the binary archive > files. But we have not yet released an official version. So we consider > the current state as ready for beta. But with a 9 year old archive, I > would expect you will see a few pitfalls.
I've scanned over the archives a little, yes. The beta "works" for me. I left it going for 5 hours yesterday, but it never got passed LOADVSSNAMES though :) > ssphys is only the backend doing the decoding of the binary files. All > higher logic is done in the perl converter vss2svn. So normally you > don't have to use ssphys directly. vss2svn takes care for it. But if you > want, you can play with "ssphys --help" Yeah, I tried that, but I was hoping for sub help, help on the arguments to info, etc. > Since vss2svn creates the dumpfile by itself there is no need in knowing > the path to svn. Therefore there is also no configuration option for it. Ahh, I hadn't actually looked, well, at all, so I was presuming it used the svn binary to create the dumpfile. > Currently the converter can not perform the conversion on a single > subproject or limit the conversion to a specific time interval. But you > can use two methods to achieve this: > > * Perform a full conversion, but use the svndumpfilter when importing > into a repository > * Make a local copy of you current VSS archive and recursively destroy > unsused projects Oh, now option 2 sounds like a good idea. I'll try that today. > The second option reduces the size of the data that needs to be > converted and thereby reduces the time needed during the conversion. > This is also a "safe" option to minimize the amount for the conversion, > since the destroy action will only destroy information that is not > shared throughout your archive. (But be sure that you use this path on a > local copy of your archive) > > I would suggest you start with the current nearly beta status and see, > whether you run into problems. If so, I would invite you to help fix bugs. Thanks, I don't know C++, but I can muddle through with perl. -- Mike Williams _______________________________________________ vss2svn-users mailing list Project homepage: http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn/ Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Admin: http://lists.pumacode.org/mailman/listinfo/vss2svn-users-lists.pumacode.org
