>Subject: Re: Converted Repo not displaying historical differences > > >Michael Swanson schrieb: >> >> I'm looking at a repository I created with vss2svn using TortoiseSVN >> and I wanted to look at the difference report on some historical >> (read:VSS) checkins. However, when Tortoise pulls the file >as it was >> checked in and the file from the previous rev, the diff viewer is >> saying that the files match, basically saying that there were no >> changes made. No matter how far I back-date a file (I've >backdated to >> the very beginning, on files that I know have changed many >times), and >> it always shows the exact same contents of the file. Am I missing >> something or did something go wrong with the import? This doesn't >> happen with the changes I've made in testing after the import was >> made, actually made through SVN. Those changes actually appear as >> changes and the files have different contents. >> >During the conversion all versions of each file are extracted from the >VSS archive and stored in a subdirectory of the vssdata directory. The >files are named like the physical file, with the number of the version >as an extension. Could you please look into any subfolder of your >vssdata folder and check whether the content of two versions of a >physical file are different? > >If this is not the case could you please try to run the ssphys get >command on a physical file of your VSS archive, e.g you found that the >file XNAAAAAA has 150 versions stored in the vssdata\XN directory. In >this case try the following: > >Go to the base directory of your VSS archive (where your >srcsafe.ini is >located) >create a temporary folder XN >run ssphys get -v 1 -b data\x\xnaaaaaa XN >run ssphys info data\x\xnaaaaaa > XN\xnaaaaaa.xml > >check for any errors that will be printed to the console. >check the files in the temporary folder (xnaaaaaa.1 to xnaaaaaa.150). >They should be different. > >Dirk
I am using the precompiled version 20.1 build 156 of ssphys <- don't know if this is an older version, I was having trouble getting the code to compile so I downloaded this from the tigris.org site and have been using it. Is this possibly the problem? Mike _______________________________________________ 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 Mailing list web interface (with searchable archives): http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.vss2svn.user
