Comments on: Migrating Visual SourceSafe to Subversion

By: Thomas Schukraft

Thomas Schukraft — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:10:03 +0000

Ok. Solved the first problem. I used https-URL and after I changed to http-URL it worked. My test project was imported fine.

But still I have a different problem: I want to import the full VSS-Database (root) but get the message that no project is specified Any idea what to do? There are files in the root-dir with history that I want to migrate.

By: Thomas Schukraft

Thomas Schukraft — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:17:11 +0000

I use the tip of Mee Fong Kwan to get it running with Visual SS 6.0d. Merge worked. But the import to SVN did not work. Any ideas?

INFO Starting to merge revisions with count of 354
INFO Merge completed with a final revision count of 201
INFO ##### Creating directories

Unhandled Exception: System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write
protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
at svn_pool_create_ex(apr_pool_t* , apr_allocator_t* )
at SharpSvn.Implementation.AprPool..ctor()
at SharpSvn.SvnClient..ctor()
at VssMigrate.Program.GetSvnClient()
at VssMigrate.Program.ImportDirectories()
at VssMigrate.Program.Main(String[] argv)

By: Waseem Bokhari

Waseem Bokhari — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:28:09 +0000

Dear Nathan!!
I really appreciate the Article :–

What is the extent of the VSS database that VSSMigrate migrates to Subversion???

The Most important >> How to deal with Corrupted files in VSS when they convert to Subversion >>> <<<

Thanks
Regards
WSBokhari

By: Waseem Bokhari

Waseem Bokhari — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:06:17 +0000

These are the Settings of my Config files:::: (\$/$)|(\$/Sub1(/Sub1A(/Sub1A2(/Sub1A2a)?)?)?$)|(\$/Sub1/Sub1A/Sub1A2/Sub1A2a.*) 54: Only one or none of the exclusion/inclusion regex pairs may be set 55: The regex's are case-insensitive 56: Reminder: escape the $/ to \$/ 57: -->

By: Waseem Bokhari

Waseem Bokhari — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:05:21 +0000

I have tried>>

Why i am getting the following errors::–

Please help:(

##### Building file list
##### Creating directories
SharpSvn.SvnRepositoryIOException: Unable to open an ra_local session to URL —
> SharpSvn.SvnRepositoryIOException: Unable to open repository ‘file:///D:/Migra
tionSetup/SVNRepo/file:/D:/MigrationSetup/SVNRepo/Trunk’ —> SharpSvn.SvnExcept
ion: Can’t open file ‘D:\MigrationSetup\SVNRepo\file:\D:\MigrationSetup\SVNRepo\
Trunk\format’: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect
.
— End of inner exception stack trace —
— End of inner exception stack trace —
at SharpSvn.SvnClientArgs.HandleResult(SvnClientContext client, SvnException
error)
at SharpSvn.SvnClientArgs.HandleResult(SvnClientContext client, svn_error_t*
error)
at SharpSvn.SvnClient.RemoteImport(String path, Uri target, SvnImportArgs arg
s, SvnCommitResult& result)
at SharpSvn.SvnClient.Import(String path, Uri target, SvnImportArgs args, Svn
CommitResult& result)
at SharpSvn.SvnClient.Import(String path, Uri target, SvnImportArgs args)
at VssMigrate.Program.ImportDirectories() in D:\Softwares\v0.1.0.0\src\Progra
m.cs:line 164
at VssMigrate.Program.Main(String[] argv) in D:\Softwares\v0.1.0.0\src\Progra
m.cs:line 66

What is SharpSVN and what to do with this.

Regards
Thanks
WSBokhari

By: Eric Strehl

Eric Strehl — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:11:19 +0000

First time working with Subversion; am trying to port our 10+ year history of VSS projects over to it so may be missing something. Whenever I move a project, the history of revisions comes out OK, pretty much, but always comes in as whatever I set the SVN user to be as the author of every revision, not different authors as in your example. What am I missing?

Thanks,

By: Bayard Randel

Bayard Randel — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:27:03 +0000

Very handy thank you. I thought we were going to have to lose our VSS revisions in the transition to SVN – very pleased we could preserve them.

By: Dellle

Dellle — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:46:16 +0000

Convertings works so far but I get a couple aof these Warnings:

WARN Invalid svn status detected for $/MyFolder/MyFolder/MyFile.sln:2

Waht does this mean?

By: Lee Englestone

Lee Englestone — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:02:51 +0000

Before I go through all the effort of attempting this.

Can I ask the question : Is it compatible with Visual Source Safe 6.0d?

– Lee

By: Tablespork

Tablespork — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:54:19 +0000

I got an error: “SharpSvn.SvnFileSystemException: Expected FS format between ‘1′ and ‘3′; found format ‘4′.” I replaced the SharpSvn bundled with VssMigrate with the latest 1.6 version and it worked.