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Visual SourceSafe to Perforce Migration
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Source and documentation for Perforce's VssToP4 scripts - Perl scripts to
migrate a repository from Microsoft's Visual SourceSafe into Perforce.
<p>This set of Perl scripts converts VSS archives to Perforce, preserving the
original times and authors. Branches are translated verbatim, individual file
revisions are grouped as much as possible into Perforce's notion of atomic
changes.</p>
<p>Requires Perl 5.6, VSS 5.0 or 6.0 (not 2005 for now) and Perforce 97.3 or later. The
scripts only run on Windows (read values from Registry).</p>
<p>Basic Files required to download are (see
<a href="http://public.perforce.com/public/perforce/utils/vsstop4/main/README.html">readme</a>
for more info):</p>
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<a href="http://www.activestate.com/Products/Download/Register.plex?id=ActivePerl">
ActiveState Perl</a> (5.6 is recommended - have had problems with 5.8)</li>
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<a href="http://public.perforce.com/public/perforce/utils/vsstop4/main/vsstop4.zip">vsstop4.zip</a> (source files for conversion)</b></p>
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<a href="http://public.perforce.com/guest/tony_smith/perforce/API/Perl/released/p4perl56-setup-3.5708.exe">
P4Perl for Perl 5.6.6</a><b> </b>or
<a href="http://public.perforce.com/guest/tony_smith/perforce/API/Perl/released/p4perl58-setup-3.5708.exe">
P4Perl for Perl 5.8</a> (required interface to P4 from Perl) - please
do not use newer
versions of P4Perl since they probably won't work. This page will be updated
if later versions are valid. Install P4Perl after Perl is installed.</li>
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<p>Please note that there is now a special version which handles files with
previous illegal characters (#, *, %, @). This version is known to work but
there hasn't yet been time to fully fold all changes into the main version (e.g.
to switch this handling on or off etc). Thus the special version requires a
2005.2 server, and does things like "p4 add -f" If you want this special version:</p>
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<a href="http://public.perforce.com/public/perforce/utils/vsstop4/2006-06-special-chars/vsstop4.zip">vsstop4.zip</a> (source files for conversion)</b></p>
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<p>These scripts are not fully supported - but feel free to contact Curator
below.</p>
<p>There are a couple of utilities available at:
<a href="http://public.perforce.com/guest/robert_cowham/perforce/utils/index.html">
http://public.perforce.com/guest/robert_cowham/perforce/utils/index.html</a>
which will help with reporting on branched and deleted files in VSS, also files
with illegal filenames for Perforce (e.g. containing '#' or '@' - although these
are no longer illegal with version 2004.2 of the server but do require
escaping).</p>
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<b>Curator</b>
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<td valign=top> Robert Cowham. Please email
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<p><b>Details:</b></p>
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<li>Checkout the
<a href="http://public.perforce.com/public/perforce/utils/vsstop4/main/README.html">readme</a>
file. All files are downloadable from the Public Depot via FTP (see links
above).</li>
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<p><b>Updated:</b></p>
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<li>See
<a href="http://public.perforce.com/public/perforce/utils/vsstop4/main/CHANGELOG.txt">
changelog.txt</a> file.</li>
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</BODY> | # | Change | User | Description | Committed | |
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| #1 | 5974 | Ashish Melanta | Pulling in the Perforce utils into my guest branch | ||
| //guest/perforce_software/utils/vsstop4/index.html | |||||
| #22 | 5776 | Robert Cowham | Upgrade to P4Perl 3.5708 | ||
| #21 | 5652 | Robert Cowham |
- Add more troubleshooting help to readme.html. - Update to use P4Perl 3.5313 - Added new module utils.pm to detect and fail if wrong P4Perl version used. |
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| #20 | 5560 | Robert Cowham | Add link to new version | ||
| #19 | 5439 | Robert Cowham | Reiterate version of P4Perl to use. | ||
| #18 | 5342 | Robert Cowham | Document that VSS 2005 not supported yet - use 6.0 | ||
| #17 | 5315 | Robert Cowham |
- Output script version. Changed warning message. - Converted README.txt to README.html |
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| #16 | 5301 | Robert Cowham | Changed ftp links to http | ||
| #15 | 5075 | Robert Cowham |
- Use ->Connect() rather than Init() (version 3.4804 of the released P4Perl). - Add troubleshooting help. |
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| #14 | 4936 | Robert Cowham | Be specific about version of P4Perl to use | ||
| #13 | 4641 | Robert Cowham | Updated to cope with changes to P4Perl - call MergeErrors when setting up. | ||
| #12 | 4026 | Robert Cowham |
Make previous change configurable rather than hard-coding and add explanation to config.ini about it. Point Update section on web page to Changelog.txt |
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| #11 | 4000 | Robert Cowham |
Remove changes for non-P4Perl version. Improved Web page with download links. |
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| #10 | 3926 | Robert Cowham | P4Perl is now required for the scripts to run. | ||
| #9 | 3920 | Robert Cowham | Zip up latest changes. | ||
| #8 | 3815 | Robert Cowham | Fixed problem with line of asterisks in change comment. | ||
| #7 | 3798 | Robert Cowham | Latest changes | ||
| #6 | 3611 | Robert Cowham | Updated .zip file and web | ||
| #5 | 3558 | Robert Cowham |
Fixed bug with French date formats. Autoupdate client root and view based on config.ini entries. |
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| #4 | 3557 | Robert Cowham |
Updated .zip file reference. Also change notes. |
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| #3 | 2172 | Robert Cowham | Added comment | ||
| #2 | 2171 | Robert Cowham |
Correct link. Make into ktext. |
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| #1 | 2170 | Robert Cowham | First version of web page | ||