2 things.. 1) Show off! :)
2) Where were you 2months ago when i needed advise like that! ;) --- Nathan Kidd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jon Hardcastle wrote: > > Just as a second to what this chap replied with - > I > > have just finished (well 2months ago) migrating > > several repositories with chequered histories at > > best.. and all quite large.. I got the best sucess > > when i did the following. > > ... > > Create your SVN repos.. and attempt an import. In > my > > experience it kept falling over on the import back > in. > > > > My cut and burn solution to this was to delete > delete > > the file that caused the problem IN SOURCE SAFE. I > > also found that if 1 file in a dir complained it > was > > likely several would - save yourself some time. if > non > > of the histories to these files are import purge > the > > directory containing them.. > > > > Repeat until you can migrate, and import without > > error. > > In the recent conversion I did I found it fairly > easy to : > > 1. svnamin load, observe on which revision it fails > 2. 'svndumptool split' [1] the failing revision out > of the main dumpfile > such that you get A.dump (revisions before bad rev), > B.dump (the bad > revision) and C.dump (revisions after bad rev). > 3. Open B.dump in your favourite editor that won't > mangle binary data > (vi!) and fix it. (Does a parent directory need to > be created? Is a > rename wrong? Forcibly "un-orphan" a file by > reconnecting its path to > its true parent, etc.) The format is pretty easy to > work with if you're > careful -- just copy an entry similar to what you > want and tweak. > 4. svnadmin load A.dump, B.dump, C.dump > 5. Goto 1, for any problem in C.dump. > > I found this much faster than trying to change > something in the vss2svn > process, and it guaranteed working results. > > -Nathan > > [1] http://svn.borg.ch/svndumptool/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > ----------------------- N: Jon Hardcastle E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'The writing is on the wall...' ----------------------- _______________________________________________ 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
