Welcome to the Vss2Svn project
Welcome to the new Trac site for the Vss2Svn project.
About This Project
vss2svn is a Perl script (vss2svn.pl) and accompanying C program (ssphys.exe) to migrate revision history from a Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) database to a Subversion repository.
This combination of programs was designed by reverse-engineering the backend database structure of Microsoft's VSS repository. In doing so, we have made progress towards overcoming the inability of even Microsoft's own API to properly recover deep history from VSS. This also means that you don't actually need a copy of VSS or its libraries to convert your repository.
How To Convert Your VSS Repository To Subversion
You may have noticed that, unlike most open-source projects, this site does not have an attention-grabbing "Download" link prominently displayed on the homepage, and there is no "Quick Start" guide for the impatient. That's because converting your VSS repository is not a "grab and run" process. It requires you to understand a bit about how the process works, what your choices are, and what results you can expect.
The following sections will describe how to convert your VSS repository to Subversion.
See also the Glossary to understand the terms used within this project.
Frequently Asked Questions
See the FAQ.
Mailing List
For help using vss2svn, please send questions to the mailing list. You must first subscribe to the list in order to post.
To subscribe, please visit: http://lists.pumacode.org/mailman/listinfo/vss2svn-users-lists.pumacode.org
You can search the mailing list archive, or access news (NNTP) and web feed (RSS) versions of it from its Gmane interface.
Vss2Svn Source Code
To browse the source code for this project, use the Browse Source link from the top link bar.
To check out the source code using svn, use the following command:
svn checkout http://svn.pumacode.org/repos/vss2svn/trunk/ vss2svn
For other information about this repository, see Vss2SvnRepository.
Old Site
This project was formerly hosted on the tigris.org project site. However, any files remaining on that site are outdated and deprecated.
