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I learned the hard way not to put any files in the $/ root of VSS, a lot of
the vss utilities don't work on the root (the worst one is ssrestor).
I would suggest that you copy or move the files in your $/ root to a
sub-project, do the conversions, and then move the ,v files to the
repository root.
When I had a source tree similar to yours, I used ssarc to archive
everything off, and the restored them to a $/working project, so I wouldn't
have the same problem. I wasn't converting to CVS at the time, but it was a
hard lesson to learn about VSS and took a lot of time to fix.
Since your converting, I think you can shortcut fixing your layout by
putting your root files in a sub-project and reorganizing the cvs repository
by hand (btw, to do that, you just move the ,v files to where you want
them).
John Cole
-----Original Message-----
From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org]On Behalf
Of Trinh_Nguyen Duy
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 8:59 PM
To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook
Subject: RE: [cvsnt] Can I convert entire VSS database to CVS Repositoy
?
Let me show you our SS' structure in our company:
- $/
file1.txt
file2.txt
CONTROL
file3.txt
file4.txt
MANAGEMENT
file5.txt
file6.txt
UNCONTROL
file7.txt
If we only convert project CONTROL and UNCONTROL, we will lose file1.txt and
file2.txt.
Because of this problem, I want to convert entire VSS Database.
So, what had I better do now? I have tried many ways but it is still there.
-----Original Message-----
From: John Cole [mailto:john.cole at uai.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 8:23 PM
To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook
Subject: RE: [cvsnt] Can I convert entire VSS database to CVS Repositoy
?
I converted our 2gb VSS database to CVSNT using vss2cvs.pl and ran into a
similar problem. My solution was to create a batch file with each of the
main project roots.
It appears that VSS has a lot of problems when trying to do things on $/
For example, if you do a ssarc on $/ it works, but ssrestor won't accept $/
so as far as I can tell the backup is useless. Same problem with vss2cvs.pl
as it uses ss.exe to get directories and it seems to not like $/
I made a batch file that called vss2cvs.pl with each main project,
vss2cvs.pl vssproj=$/proj1
vss2cvs.pl vssproj=$/proj2
etc...
Worked fine and we have never looked back. Everyone who complained about
switching are now die-hard cvs fans and have loaded it at home :-)
John Cole
-----Original Message-----
From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org]On Behalf
Of Trinh_Nguyen Duy
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 9:15 PM
To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook
Subject: [cvsnt] Can I convert entire VSS database to CVS Repositoy ?
Hi,
I would rather convert entire VSS database instead of each VSS Project. What
had I better do ? I am attempting to try to convert entire VSS database, but
it cannot convert every projects belonged to. Help me please.
Thanks
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