Any ex ClearCase or VSS users out there?

[Gary van der Merwe]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Ian Clatworthy
<ian.clatworthy at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As part of my push to make it easier for users and teams to switch to
> Bazaar, I'd like to get the "Bazaar for Visual SourceSafe Users" and
> "Bazaar for ClearCase Users" documents with some meaningful content in
> them. Is anyone out there able to help?
>
> The source for the current documents can be downloaded from
> lp:bzr-migration-docs. The latest build is online here:
> http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/migration/en/survival/index.html. Feel free to
> use the documents for other tools as starting points. The Subversion,
> Mercurial and Darcs ones are pretty good in particular.
>
> Ian C.
>
> PS: If you need some Windows screenshots for the VSS document say, you
> can grab them from the lp:bzr-explorer-website project.

I'm an ex VSS user. I'll have to get it installed and running to
refresh my memory on some of the small points though. So if there is
any one else who is a more current user, I'll be very happy to oblige.

One of the most import thing to explain to a VSS user is the
difference between the VSS workflow of "checkout-edit-checkin" and the
DVCS workflow of "edit-commit-merge-commit" and why that is better.
http://www.ericsink.com/scm/scm_checkins.html explains this quite
well, but I unless we get permission from Eric, copying is not a
option.

Gary