Category Archives: Subversion

vss_to_svn: Dealing with spaces in VSS paths

Posted on 12 September, 2007 by Simeon

I’ve been helping another team move from Visual Source Safe to Subversion. Today I got the list of sub folders needed/not-needed in the new repository. Something that took me a while to solve was how to include or exclude paths … Continue reading →

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Moving from Visual Source Safe to Subversion

Posted on 20 August, 2007 by Simeon

Last year we moved our current development repository from Visual Source Safe to Subversion. At a previous .Net Architecture Chat we talked about this process. So here is the python script and DOS .bat file used to do our conversion. … Continue reading →

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SourceGear’s DiffMerge and Subversion

Posted on 5 June, 2007 by Simeon

Eric Sink has just posted that SourceGear’s DiffMerge is free. Woot a new tool! As a subversion user, I thought I’d check it out, compared to the default TortoiseMerge. Well it beats the pant off that, but still left a … Continue reading →

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Moving from VSS to SVN

Posted on 9 November, 2006 by Simeon

Now that the development phase of our release cycle has end, and the last minute tweaks have also stopped, I have spent the last two weeks moving our development source control from Visual SourceunSafe to Subversion. The first task was … Continue reading →

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