CHANGELOG.txt #2

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2008/07/03

- Convert to official P4Perl
- Avoid appending to logfile.log
- Tidy up label markers
- Remove name clash on p4exec function

2008/06/05

- Remove question marks (?) from label names
- Change label end of comment marker from 10 asterisks to avoid problems

2008/02/27

- Removed unused module Date::Dump
- Updated docs to refer to right version of P4Perl
- Merge in changes to cope with previously illegal chars in filenames %, *, #, @
  (requires 2004.2 server and above)

2007/09/20

- Upgraded to use P4Perl 3.6001

2007/09/06

- Fixed problem with multiple directories of the same name when usin vss_corrupt option.
- Update docs with info about different versions 6.0, 6.0c and 6.0d

2007/03/14

- Improved logging slightly - new summary log file sumlogfile.log created

2006/12/21

- Set P4Perl API level to 57 (2005.1) to avoid future incompatibilities.

2006/11/21

- Upgrade to use P4Perl 3.5708
- Allow individual test to be run.

2006/10/04

- Fix bug where non-windows servers not recognised as a result of previous change.

2006/09/27

- Fix compatibility problem with 2005.1 server
- Added tests for all servers back to 2003.2
- Log more info about options used
- Clarify the vss_user/password rather than put in ss_options
- Remove use of DB_File option - seems unreliable

2006/09/05

- Add more troubleshooting help to readme.html.

2006/08/10

- Update to use P4Perl 3.5313
- Added new module utils.pm to detect and fail if wrong P4Perl version used.

2006/06/01

- Now copes with previously illegal chars %, *, #, @

2006/05/13

- Reiterate version of P4Perl to use. No script changes.

2006/03/28

- Update troubleshooting notes.

2006/03/03

- Document that you can't use VSS 2005 - need 6.0 (same archive format).

2006/02/23

- Point out config.ini values to set in README

2006/02/21

- Added TOC to readme.html

2006/02/07

- Output script version. Changed warning message.
- Converted README.txt to README.html

2006/02/01

- Minor fix of error handling for non-scalar values
- allow for depot_root to be empty
- change convert.pl to use P4Perl only
- make name of config file (default config.ini) settable via environment (VSSTOP4_CONFIG)

2005/11/24

- Clarified recommended structure to use in README.txt and config.ini

2005/08/04

- Use ->Connect() rather than Init() (version 3.4804 of the released P4Perl).
- Add troubleshooting help.

2005/05/04

- Refer to specific versions of P4Perl.

2004/11/15

- Added code to cope with new P4Perl interface (MergeErrors).

2004/08/10

- Include RV's speedup for large changelists with lots of labels.
- Remove unused code for not using P4Perl in mkdepot.pl

2004/02/27

- Cope with Chinese format dates
- Make more robust when dealing with errors (ignore if skip_errors set)
- Output progress when reading history

2003/12/12

- Add documentation about -I- or -I-N or -I-Y options to VSS commands in config.ini
  to make them not prompt for input ever (or answer N or Y to any prompts).

2003/12/08

- Fix problem with spotting opened files.

2003/11/15

- Make P4Perl required since it is so much faster.

2003/11/14

- Asterisks wasn't properly fixed - should be this time!
- When DB_File not used, labels not getting handled properly.

2003/11/10

- Fixed problem with restart and p4Perl not working.

2003/11/07

- Clarified Readme.txt
- Ooops - missing "eval" when looking for P4.pm!

2003/10/28

- Fixed problem with line of asterisks in change comments.

2003/10/22

- Removed some Perl warnings (especially for Perl 5.8)
- Trim whitespace on end of form entries

2003/09/01

- 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

2003/08/06

- Read date/time formats directly from Windows registry

2003/02/03

- Allow labels to be ignored if not wanted using configurable regexp.

2001/12/20

- errors during the verify phase are now written to the logfile
- fixed issue on Windows 2000 where in some cases changes would
  be lost during the improve phase.

2001/5/22

- add check for basic permissions

2000/11/14

- undo mistaken quoting of SourceSafe command in readhist.pl

2000/09/22

- change to handle user names with spaces

2000/05/16

- remove construct which has become deprecated in Perl 5.6
- change a whole list of other nasty characters in labels to underscores

1999/12/15

- fix to handle setting client root when it contains spaces

1999/12/2
- be more strict about file and label names - %, *, ... not allowed

1999/7/9
- one byte fix provided by Mark Gressett (thank you thank you thank you)
  If you converted with the 1999/4/27 version then the labels imported
  from VSS may contain incorrect version# references.

1999/4/27
- buffer labelsync operations so that there is only one for each label.
  This should definitely speed things up for sites which label frequently.

1999/4/20
- modified readhist.pl to use -O@tempfile flag - this causes SourceSafe
  to not word wrap its output (yay!)
- change tempobj handling to only ask SourceSafe for head revision
  - this avoids spurious error messages
- disallow filenames with # or @ or unprintable characters

1999/4/9

- modified readhist.pl to use a heuristic which seems to mostly do the
  Right Thing with filenames output across multiple lines.  Of course,
  it would be better if Microsoft didn't produce ambiguous output
  in the first place!
- fixed weirdness with sortmeta.pl which could cause corruption of
  the changes file

1998/8/28

- in verify step get files as writable so that unlink() works, ensure
  slashes all point in the same direction in name from p4 fstat

1998/8/21

- disallow numeric labels
- fix verification script to use p4 fstat rather than p4 where

1998/8/14

- fixed date format problem with 98.2 (p4 change -f would fail on dates of
  the form yyyy/mm/dd  h:mm:ss - i.e. times before 10am)

1998/6/3

- fixed small typo in readhist.pl

1998/5/13

- incorporated many fixes and enhancements provided by
  Scott Blachowicz <sab@seanet.com> and Chris Meystrik <meystrik@cast.net>
  Thanks to everyone who ran tests on the initial version