Changelog for Krepost

Krepost 3.2.3 (Released on February 2022)

This is a major rewrite. The following items were fixed and/or added:

New optional feature: Append VSS revision to each message (each vss revision will go into a single commit)
New optional feature: Do not merge check-ins
Fix: Importing a single folder was bringing some unrelated folders
Minor UI improvements
Fix: Ignore SourceSafe specific files (*.scc, *.vssscc, *.vspscc)

Krepost 3.1.2 (Released on 27th Aug 2020)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

File revisions in branches created in destroyed folders

Krepost 3.1.1 (Released on 26th Jun 2020)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Minor fix in retry dialog

Krepost 3.1.0 (Released on 22nd Jun 2020)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

New Feature: Option to create a local SVN repository for the migration
UI is more friendly for selecting http/https/svn/filesystem protocols
Many fixes regarding files and folders which are overwritten under different case
Fixed: folders with invalid actions were ignoring the whole folder
Fixed: folder moves
Error handling for local repository created with file format 1.8+ (Krepost only accepts format up to 1.7)
Performance improvements, better progress display

Krepost 3.0.14 (Released on 26th May 2020)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Multiple fixes regarding branched files which have its history rebuilt
Multiple fixes regarding moved files and overwrites with case differences

Krepost 3.0.12 (Released on March 2020)

This is a major rewrite. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Low-level libraries will read SourceSafe data even if you don't have SourceSafe installed
Rebuilds history for renames, moves, deletes (as long as file wasn't destroyed)
Now the whole repository should be exported (can't export individual folders anymore)
Trial restriction was modified: Now all revisions (up to latest) will be migrated, but some of them randomly will be overwritten by dummy contents

Krepost 2.7.0 (Released on 7th Feb 2017)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Added support for svn://, http:// and https:// protocols. Repository should have an empty pre-revprop-change hook.
Fixed major bug on folder-labels introduced on 2.6.8

Krepost 2.6.8 (Released on 19th Nov 2016)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Migrates revisions up to Dec 31st 2014
Authors and Comments can have UTF-8 (international) characters
Code Signed (better anti-virus compatbility)
Fixed for Windows Server 2003

Krepost 2.6.7 (Released on 14th Aug 2016)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

New Option "Migrate Only Before "
Enhanced logging for files with many large revisions

Krepost 2.6.5 (Released on 16th Feb 2016)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Fixed bug: Common prefix was being incorrectly removed in a few scenarios (since 2.6.1)

Krepost 2.6.3 (Released on 16th Dec 2015)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Fixed bug: Labels were not being applied when common prefix was removed (since 2.6.1)

Krepost 2.6.2 (Released on 1st Dec 2015)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Upgraded SharpSvn
Fixed bug: Could not connect to Subversion when Microsoft C++ Runtime was outdated

Krepost 2.6.1 (Released on 11th Oct 2015)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Fixed bug on importing labels applied to revisions of files that were not imported (old revisions or binary files) (Thanks to Hendrik for reporting)
Fixed bug that revision merging was not working when steps 2-5 were skipped (like when merging multiple repositories)
Added option to delete SVNCHECKOUT if it already exists
Added option to remove a common prefix (path) when all imported files belong to the same folder structure

Krepost 2.6.0 (Released on 24th Sep 2015)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Added Support for Subversion 1.9 (using SharpSvn 1.9, alpha version)

Krepost 2.5.0 (Released on 3rd May 2014)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Added Offline Activation (doesn't require internet)
Fixed bug with files ending in dots. (Thanks to Pascal for reporting)
Fixed bug with invalid xml chars. (Thanks to Gregory for reporting)
Fixed bug with merging different comments in a single commit. (Thanks to Heinz for reporting)
Better timezone calculation

Krepost 2.4.1 (Released on 23th Sep 2013)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Fixed bug on importing labels applied to earlier revisions of files that migrated only latest revisions(s) (Thanks to Shaun for reporting)

Krepost 2.4.0 (Released on 27th June 2013)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Added Support for Subversion 1.8 (using SharpSvn 1.8, released on June 2013)

Krepost 2.3.2 (Released on 7th May 2013)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Fixed bug with long folder paths (PathTooLongException when folder path is longer than 260 chars)
Preserving original file encoding when SourceSafe bindings are removed from CSPROJ/VBPROJ/SLN files
Fixed bug when VSS folder ends with a dot (.)
More workarounds against VSS6 bugs (like duplicated histories, and physical filenames encoding issues)
Fixed bug in some exception-handling logic

Krepost 2.2.5 (Released on 10th Nov 2012)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Can ignore old VSS revisions based on revision date (import only revisions after specific date)
Can ignore old VSS revisions based on number of revisions (import only latest N-th revisions for each file)

Krepost 2.2.0 (Released on 30th Dec 2011)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

SharpSvn upgraded to 1.7002.1998 - should work with Subversion 1.7 new working copy format.
Installer now has a "Launch now" option

Krepost 2.1.1 (Released on 5th Sep 2011)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Fixed XAML bug which caused crashing on some versions of Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008
Added NSIS-based Installer and Uninstaller
In case .NET Framework 4.0 is not previously installed, installer detects and downloads it
Added Product Activation feature (except for Demo Version)
Workaround against VSS6 bug which was informing Physical filenames with invalid chars
Fixed bug when Temporary Folder was under Network Path

Krepost 2.0 (Released on 4th Jul 2011)

This is a major rewrite

All interface was rewritten from scratch using WPF
Allow multiple exports before a single import (allows merging multiple VSS repositories, or exporting huge repositories in parts)
Fixed bug for importing Unicode paths
Trial limitation was lowered: now all revisions up to 31-Dec-2010 are migrated
Requirements: Microsoft.NET Framework 4.0

Krepost 1.1 (Released on 12th Feb 2011)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Ability to choose which files will be imported regardless of file size (by file extensions)
Fixed bug when files have been renamed only with case modifications

Krepost 1.0 (Released on 13th Aug 2010)

Our Source Safe library was completely rewritten

Support for both Source Safe 6 or Source Safe 2005 client executables (most VSS users are still using VSS6)
Many new workarounds against Source Safe database inconsistencies
Better Changeset merging
Lower Memory Consumption
Better Performance
Better Compression (sourcesafe extraction)
Can break into Admin password (in case you don't have this password)
Trial limitation was lowered: now all files up to 28-Feb-2010 are migrated
Fixed bug on removing sourcesafe bindings
Fixed bug on file size limits

Krepost 0.90 (Released on 21th Feb 2010)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

Fixed for working on 64-bit operating systems (tested on Windows 7 64-bits)
Fixed bug with long file paths (more than 260 chars)
Documentation: Added workaround procedure to register SourceSafe 2005 DLL without needing to install it

Krepost 0.89 (Released on 1st Jan 2010)

This is the first public version

Created Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Better algorithm for grouping SourceSafe changes: now can handle simultaneous batch checkins by different users
Added feature to import SourceSafe labels as regular Subversion revisions
Added feature to remove SourceSafe bindings from CSPROJ, VBPROJ, SLN files
Added feature to ignore large binary files
Trial limitation: all files up to 31-Jun-2009 are migrated
Requirements: Microsoft.NET Framework 2.0

Krepost (Private Use version)

First versions have been created for our own usage.
Our customer wanted to migrate an 8 GB repository, we tried many different tools and none of them worked.
Then we decided to create our own tool.

Read files and histories from SourceSafe, importing them to Subversion
Merges changes which have been made in near times by the same user into a single commit
Import SourceSafe labels as regular Subversion revisions
Fixed SourceSafe bug which happens when reading root folder $/ and immediate childs

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