IMPORTANT

This project is no longer under active development. You may file Issues against this project and submit Patches, but until/unless a new maintainer takes ownership there will be no future updates.

Please go to the General Discussion group to ask questions but the likelihood of it being answered are low. Do not contact me directly for help in converting your repository. I no longer even have VSS installed and cannot help you.

This site was recently moved from the previous site at PumaCode.org. Some links may still be broken.

About this project

vss2svn is a Perl script (vss2svn.pl) and accompanying C program (ssphys.exe) to migrate revision history from a Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) database to a Subversion repository.

This combination of programs was designed by reverse-engineering the backend database structure of Microsoft's VSS repository. In doing so, we have made progress towards overcoming the inability of even Microsoft's own API to properly recover deep history from VSS. This also means that you don't actually need a copy of VSS or its libraries to convert your repository.

Please visit the wiki for more info.