David Bolton Strikes Again

One of the topics I had on my list to blog about was moving from VSS to Subversion. A couple of years ago, I managed a migration of a large codebase, maintained by a set of developers who had only used VSS for several years, so I naturally had a few opinions on the issue.

As it was sitting on the list though, it never seemed a particularly compelling topic, mainly because I didn’t think anyone was still using VSS, so who’d want to read about it? Then yesterday I came across this blog post about the VSS to SVN process from the Softies on Rails and realised that perhaps it is relevant to more people than I’d guessed. Still, I’m not quite inspired enough to write a blog post about it, I’ll just point towards the king of source control, Eric Sink. Between those articles and a good book like Mike Mason’s “Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion”, most bases should be covered.