Suggested vss2svn workflow (was RE: Invalid change ordering?)

[Toby Johnson]

Kenneth Porter wrote:
> On Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:56 AM +0000 Jonathan Perret 
> <Jonathan.Perret at augure.com> wrote:
>
>> Perhaps the vss2svn wiki should contain information of this kind ?
>
> Sounds like a good idea.
>
> I did something like that, but my conversion was on a Linux box. I 
> didn't have access to the customer's VSS server to install software, 
> so I installed cwrsync (a Windows rsync client/server) on a convenient 
> machine at the customer site that had access to the VSS DB. I 
> configured it as a read-only rsync server, and used the rsync client 
> on my Linux box at my own site to keep my local copy of the VSS DB up 
> to date for each attempt.

Thanks Jonathan for your detailed workflow. My only concern is that I 
don't want to give the impression that VSS or any other software is 
*required*. As Kenneth mentioned he performed the migration without even 
access to a Windows box. I do think it is very helpful to have one or 
more "use cases" that people can refer to. It seems that different 
people will often have very different issues that they face so there 
will not be any single recipe that works for everyone.

toby