any idea where can I get VSS (source safe) client for Linux?

[jclausius]

I know it sounds crazy, but at SourceGear we encounter customers with this setup all the time.

I think a lot of people still want to leverage legacy code which may be residing in a VSS repository, but still need access to it within a non-windows environment.

[RedSon]

Does sourcegear provide any tools to migrate an existing VSS database to a subversion repository.

If so I would recommend that LOL!

[jclausius]

:>)

I think I've seen something from CollabNet or a project on SourceForge which may do this. Not to start a flamewar, but what's even better are the questions we get asking us to convert svn to Vault or even better yet, svn to TeamSystem.

It's all out there!

[RedSon]

svn to teamsystem I can understand. If you are comfortable with the Microsoft ecosystem and would like to use their products, then go for it. But not even Microsoft is supporting VSS anymore. They abandon it in favor of TeamSystem which is more like a clone of svn anyway.

A really innovative SCM is Git which I've never really used, and bzr which is I think used exclusively by Cannonical.

So to the OP: switch to something else, anything else! I beg you! Zipping up your code base and sending it via email to everyone is superior to VSS. Manually tracking it on a whiteboard is superior. However my opinion may be biased so take it for what it is worth.

[jclausius]

"But not even Microsoft is supporting VSS anymore."

This is not exactly true. As things stand right now, VSS is on "end of life" with support to expire mid-2011. But then again, MS has also been trying the same thing with Visual Basic. We'll see how this plays out.