[ILUG] Visual SourceSafe to CVS converter

kevin lyda kevin at suberic.net
Fri Sep 29 17:29:35 IST 2000


On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 03:36:34PM +0100, Noel Carroll wrote:
> I'm kicking around ideas for useful open source development work at the
> moment and one thing thats sprung to mind is a converter for Visual
> SourceSafe databases to CVS to help people who are making the switch.   I've

good idea.

> seen VSS down so much here that I reckon we might change at some point and
> probably other places change every day.   Anyway, has anyone got any

actually i don't see many change.  two stumbling blocks:

    where are the click and drool interfaces?
    no locks!  waaaaah!

and then there's that issue with cvs not supporting remote sites.  sigh.

> backgrounders on the VSS file format?   Also does anyone know anything about
> similar projects already up and running or just general information that
> might be useful?

i think vss uses a database.  and they call .c files documents.  freaks.

kevin

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