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Best way to migrate from VSS to Subversion?


I'm a single developer looking to get off of Visual Source Safe and move to svn.

A quick search brings up several tools, but I don't see a clear winner and I can't afford to spend a lot of time testing different tools.

Has anyone done this successfully, and can recommend a method?


Solution

  • I recommend just adding your code to a new Subversion repository rather than importing from VSS. VSS has a convoluted version control model that doesn't translate well to many other systems, and just starting fresh is usually the best way to avoid taking that clutter with you.

    If you need to keep the history around, make your VSS repository read-only.