Category Archives: Subversion

Complex SVN repository conversion to GIT

When I converted our two Visual Source Safe (vss from now on) repositories into one Subversion (svn from now on) repository I did it in an ugly fashion. I dumped the file based history for the current live trees, then … Continue reading

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Getting into Git

With the pending move to the US, I need someway to work detached from the main NZ network. So I was keen to try-out Mercurial or Git. I had heard more positive Mercurial stories, verse the real men use Git … Continue reading

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Subversion upgrade missing UUID

We recently upgraded our subversion server at work because it was having performance problems, yet the new server also performed poorly, so our dev-svn-admin guy did a dump reload of all the repositories, to gain the benefits of the new … Continue reading

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DiffMerge 3.1 Released

Eric Sink has announced the SourceGear release of DiffMerge 3.1. Killer feature for me is the correct TortoiseSVN merge command is now documented in the help, copied here for your pleasure: /m /r=%merged /t1=%yname /t2=%bname /t3=%tname /c=%mname %mine %base %theirs Fantastic. … Continue reading

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Conversion complete

Well the full conversion ran last night for the other team. Some stats: The current four Visual Source Safe repositories had a combined size of 11.2 GB The wanted code tree was 490 MB  (mix of text and binary files) The subversion … Continue reading

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