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trevorr / vss2git

Migrate Visual SourceSafe repositories to Git
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Axel ws #59

Closed AxelWS closed 4 years ago

AxelWS commented 4 years ago

Hi Axel, you need to Fork the repository into your own account, and then you can push changes to that. [...]

Hi Trevor,

thank you for your patience explaining GitHub to me. Somehow I would have imagined it to be easier for the occasional and possibly one-time contributer.

I'm not really comfortable with owning a publicly visible fork. As you can guess from my response time, I'm not one to maintain a fork and may have reason to delete it soon. Maybe you would be willing to take over my experimental changes on a different branch? I don't see an option to create a pull request to a branch that does not exist yet, but maybe you can change that?

Best Regards Axel

This branch contains some changes I had to do because the Visual SourceSafe projects we have to work on were supplied as *.ssa exports from SourceSafe and after restoring them into a new VSS database Vss2Git got confused by the time stamps of restore actions in a way that made the resulting Git repository quite useless. I tried to make the changes low risk, but in the end I guess there is not enough testing yet for this branch to go to main. I won't have the time to do more testing beyond using it for our projects, but I will try to push the branch in the hope that it may help someone with similar problems. It may also help if you have a repository where the commit/checkin times are seriously messed up. The branch also includes some minor usability changes, including one or two from branch remigius.

trevorr commented 4 years ago

Ok, I did as you requested. I think a fork is likely more discoverable than a branch, but I'm fine leaving the changes there for now if you don't want to keep a fork.

AxelWS commented 4 years ago

Hi Trevor, in fact I remember I tried to look at some of the pull requests and couldn't figure out how to find them. (But maybe it is obvious for the experienced GitHub worker.) Anyway, thanks a lot for hosting my branch!