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From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Subject: Re: VSS to git
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Chris Velevitch venit, vidit, dixit 02.03.2009 18:15:
> I can't seem to find any utilities to convert a vss repository to git.
> In the absence of such a tool, what is the best approach to converting
> an vss repository to git?

Depending on the complexity of your vss repo, going through svn may be
an option, see

http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/5/27/1952124

which points at

http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn

Using those pieces you may even be able to produce a fast-exporter for
vss, whose output you could feed into git-fast-import (vss2svn already
creates an svn dump file).

Michael