I've recently tried to convert a VSS repository to Subversion. We have all our projects in a single VSS repository (one per folder).
So I first tried to convert the whole repository and use filtering to only insert entries related to the project I wanted to convert. (method recommended in the Wiki) This project had shares that were deleted and various files ended in the orphaned folder. So when I tried to svndumpfilter for only the project folder I was getting errors when svn was trying to copy from orphaned back to the project folder.(missing file error) So I thought I would include the orphaned folder but then again ran into trouble because orphaned was trying to copy some files to another project that was not included in the filter.... To solve that I ended up searching for all copy operations from orphaned to my project folder and with that created a big include that would include all the subfolders that were needed by a svn copy/move operation ( orphaned/YYYYAAA ..etc) After doing that svndumpfilter managed to create a file. I inserted that file into SVN and tried to compare and realized that some files were missing (actually whole folders too) I searched the dumpfile and realized that those missing files and missing folders were in the orphaned folder and were never moved to the project folder.... At that point I was about to give up and insert a latest copy into SVN (effectively losing all history) and then tried to do a backup of the project restored that backup into a fresh new VSS repository and ran the conversion again (actually this time I used the latest nightly). At the end I inserted the content of the dump file and the project folder was not even there. The whole project was in orphaned. But I just moved/renamed and then compared. Only very few files were missing. Those missing files were all files that were created and never modified (i.e. no history) so I added those missing files manually and ended up with a complete SVN repository with full history. I am not sure if the backup/restore is better than svndumpfilter but it surely is a lot easier/faster. The first try was made using the recommended alpha version while the second was made using the latest nightly so maybe the latest nightly would have managed to move missing files from orphaned on its own using the original repository but who knows... Anyway hats off to the developers, that project folder was the worst so I guess if vss2svn managed to convert this one it should be able to convert all others..... _______________________________________________ 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
