Has anyone tried vss2git?

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Published on 2009-12-16T10:48:26Z Indexed on 2010/05/23 4:00 UTC
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OK, so I have started a contract where they are using (gulp) Visual SourceSafe and are looking to move to something better. I have recommended Git. I stumbled across vss2git, which looks useful for migrating from VSS. Has anyone used it?

Many thanks!

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