$Id: //guest/perforce_software/utils/vsstop4/2006-06-special-chars/CHANGELOG.txt#6 $ 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 and Chris Meystrik Thanks to everyone who ran tests on the initial version