Migrate a Source Safe database to SubVersion with history

Question

Folks,

We have a number of Source Safe databases that should be migrated to SubVersion. Is there a (tested and proven) way to migrate them with history ?

Thanks Essam

Answer 1

I'm considering the migration too and I have found some pages that may help you in the process:

• Moving from Visual SourceSafe to Subversion
• Vss2Svn Project page
• Migrating from SourceSafe to Subversion

This 3 pages provide information on methods to migrate the complete history from VSS to SVN

Answer 2

You can try VssMigrate. It is a C# port of PowerAdmin's VssMigrate which has the capability to "Resolve the individual VSS-checkins to atomic SVN commits via the approximate timestamp".

Answer 3

My company has developed a Source Safe to Subversion migration tool: http://www.abstrakti.com/en-US/Products/Krepost

This tool was developed after having problems with every other tool, when we had to migrate a customer's repository. Also, this is the only tool that can import SourceSafe labels into SVN.

Let me know if you have any problems, I'll be glad to help you.

Eric.