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The VSSToP4 Project
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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 later and Perforce 97.3 or later.&nbsp;The 
scripts only run on Windows (read values from Registry).</p>
<p>Download:
<a href="ftp://public.perforce.com/public/perforce/utils/vsstop4/main/vsstop4.zip">
<b>vsstop4.zip</b></a><B>
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<p>These scripts are not fully supported - but feel free to contact Curator
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<b>Curator</b>
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    <td valign=top> Robert Cowham. Please email <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>
      if you have submitted contributions you'd like published, or if you have ideas
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<p><b>Details:</b></p>
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  <li>Checkout the <a href="ftp://public.perforce.com/public/perforce/utils/vsstop4/main/README.txt">readme.txt</a>
    file. All files are downloadable from the Public Depot via FTP (see links
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<p><b>Updated:</b></p>
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  <li>1-Oct-2002 <b>- </b>First added to Public Depot. </li>
  <li>7-Aug-2003 - Updated date/time format handling. Clarified notes. Automatic 
  update of client.</li>
  <li>1-Sep-2003 - Significantly speed up whole script:<blockquote>
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  <li>new algorithm for labels - much faster</li>
  <li>use DB_File module (if available) for labels for large sites</li>
  <li>use P4Perl module (if available) - much faster<br>
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# Change User Description Committed
#1 3624 Mitch Stuart Branch //public/perforce/utils to //guest/mitch_stuart/perforce/utils
//guest/perforce_software/utils/vsstop4/index.html
#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.
#4 3557 Robert Cowham Updated .zip file reference.
Also change notes.
#3 2172 Robert Cowham Added comment
#2 2171 Robert Cowham Correct link.
Make into ktext.
#1 2170 Robert Cowham First version of web page