sourcesafe2subversion Migration tool

The act of building software is a journey — at the start you have a destination in mind and some idea of the route. By the time you reach the destination your map is littered with the record of all of your wrong turns. Looking back you can see the path you should have taken.

But each wrong turn gave you the insight you needed to plot the right path through the obstacles that you faced.

Here I describe the obstacles that Visual SourceSafe scatters all over your file history, and the few that Subversion adds in the way of moving from the former to the latter.