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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. 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. Requires Perl 5.6, VSS 5.0 or later and Perforce 97.3 or later. The scripts only run on Windows (read values from Registry). Download: vsstop4.zip These scripts are not fully supported - but feel free to contact Curator below.

Curator

Robert Cowham. Please email if you have submitted contributions you'd like published, or if you have ideas for enhancement.

Details:

• Checkout the readme.txt file. All files are downloadable from the Public Depot via FTP (see links above).

Updated:

• 1-Oct-2002 - First added to Public Depot.
• 7-Aug-2003 - Updated date/time format handling. Clarified notes. Automatic update of p4client.
• 1-Sep-2003 - Significantly speed up whole script:

  • new algorithm for labels - much faster
  • use DB_File module (if available) for labels for large sites
  • use P4Perl module (if available) - much faster

• 22-Oct-2003 - Remove Perl warnings - avoid problem with Perl 5.8
• 28-Oct-2003 - Fixed problem with asterisks in change comments
• 14-Nov-2003 - Fix asterisks properly. Also when DB_File in use fix problem with labels.
• 15-Nov-2003 - P4Perl is now required for the scripts to run.

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