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Cristane, I used the vss2cvs.pl script. There is a link at http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/VssToCvs The nice thing about this script was that it allows you to run over and over again. This allowed us to import everything from VSS to CVS and then resync from VSS to CVS and use CVS as a read only (for those projects in VSS) system while we ported our build scripts and utils over. We actually ran the script nightly for 7 months :-) and each night it would bring CVS up to date with VSS. When we had everyone and all the machines ready, we turned off the nightly import and turned off the VSS machine (it hasn't been used since). Everyone got a new sandbox and we were off and running. We were able to get 4 years worth of history into CVS and keep it in sync. I was also able to run speed comparisons (CVS blows VSS into the weeds btw) and use the CVS server as a live backup during the transition (I also started offsite backups of the CVS server since the CVS repository compressed into 1/5th the space VSS did). During training we were able to get sandboxes that were up to date as of the nightly sync. Our only problem was a corrupt file in VSS that could not be repaired that kept crashing the script. I put a if statement in the perl script to ignore that file and I imported it by hand. John Cole -----Original Message----- From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org]On Behalf Of Cristiane Costa Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 1:33 PM To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook Subject: [cvsnt] VSS to CVS Ive seen a email from John Cole saying that he had imported the history of his VSS repository into CVSNT (WinXP server). I need to do something like this and I´d like to ask John: What tool did you use? Which do you recommend? Cristiane Costa --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com/a _______________________________________________ cvsnt mailing list cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs ------------------------------------- This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail.