Changing version control application

FinalBuilder Discussion
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Hi,

We are changing are version control application from Visual Source Safe(VSS) to Star-Team(ST). We have many existing commands in our FianlBuilder building scripts to the VSS as check-in/out and get latest.
Is there any way to change them automaticliy to ST commands ?
What would be the easiest way to do it ?

Thanks in advance,
Chaim.

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I made almost the same conversion, and I don’t think there is a fast automatic way…

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Nir is right, unfortunately. I’d recommend disabling all the VSS actions to begin with, then adding each StarTeam action until you have replaced them all.

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I’ve also been down this route, and I agree with the other contributors - there’ s no quick fix.

Also bear in mind that there’s not always a one-to-one correlation between a VSS operation and its StarTeam equivalent.

You may also find that, if like us you’re using an Oracle database behind StarTeam, and if like us your build process involves numerous calls to StarTeam, then your build times will increase substantially. Part of the reason for this is that each StarTeam action has to re-establish the connection to the database. I’ve been tinkering with some custom actions using the StarTeam SDK which would enable initial establishment of the connection, and then subsequent actions refer to the properties/methods of the object created initially; preliminary tests show some increase in throughput by using this method.