How to load dumpfile?

aravinda sh aravinda.sh at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 02:15:31 EST 2008


Nathan,

Thank you very much for the suggestions. I would carry out the sanity as you
have suggested.

Aravinda


On 1/25/08, Nathan Kidd <nathan-svn at spicycrypto.ca> wrote:
>
> aravinda sh wrote:
> > The problem finally resolved. Issue was with running vss2svn.exe in
> > ubuntu using wine.
> > I ran vss2sv.exe in windows and copied the dump file to unix server.
> > Then dumped this file onto newly created repository so it worked.
>
> Great!  I guess wine isn't really suited for that type of work, though I
> found it runs ssexp.exe very nicely.
>
> > Finally 1 question loading dumfile is sufficient right? which I believe
> > will copy all the source with history.
>
> Yes, it is sufficient.  However, you need to do serious sanity checking
> afterward.  I would at least a) roughly compare the histories shown by
> vss and svn and b) (most important) check out the latest versions from
> both vss and svn and make sure they're identical.
>
> -Nathan
>
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