Moving from VSS to SVN

Question

I need to write a script to make a source safe project ready to be moved to subversion, what do I need to do so far I can think of:

• remove .scc files
• remove .vspcc files

Do I need to remove the "read-only" attribute of all the files as well, or will that not matter?

What language would you write this script in, I was planning to do it in python (os.walk is great), but maybe powershell would be more appropriate to chnage file attributes on windows (if I need to)?

Is there anything else you can think of that needs to be done before I move the project to SVN?

Answer 1

For a manual migration (or to understand what happens) :

• remove "read-only" attribute for all files
• remove *.scc
• remove *.vssscc
• remove *.vspscc
• delete *.suo
• remove "SourceCodeControl..." section from your solution.sln file
• remove "SccProjectName..." section from your projects.csproj files