Source Control Migration Report Messages

The Source Control Migration Report has an Errors section and a Warnings section. A Critical Error section is added if a fatal error stops migration or analysis. This topic explains the messages that appear in these sections.

Critical Error

If analysis or migration is interrupted caused by a fatal error, this section is included in the report and provides a description of the error that caused analysis or migration to fail. For more information, see Critical Migration Errors.

Errors

If you have errors during analysis or migration, it means that some files or folders were not migrated. The errors do not mean that the migrated database is not usable. You can choose to ignore the files that were not migrated and start using the migrated sources in Team Foundation.

File and folder migration errors are generated when the converter cannot migrate or analyze versions of files or folders because there is an unhandled case in the Visual SourceSafe Converter. This section contains information about these not migrated files and folders that the converter could not warn about during analysis. Each error message gives a brief description of the error that was found during migration or analysis.

For more information, see Migration Errors.

Warnings

This section contains information about the loss of information or modification of information because data in Visual SourceSafe cannot be migrated to Team Foundation source control for a known reason. During analysis, the converter warns about this potential loss of information, except for data loss warnings caused by Visual SourceSafe database corruption. Frequently where the Visual SourceSafe database is corrupted, you will not be able to retrieve the version through the VSS Explorer or VSS command line. Sometimes, you can either take some action to prevent the information loss, or you can choose to accept the information loss and run the converter anyway.

Each warning message gives a brief description of the warnings that were found during migration or analysis, and contains a link to a document that contains details about the warning.

Data Loss Warnings

The following list shows the data loss warnings that the converter may experience during migration or analysis:

• Data loss due to folder move from source folder not under migration to destination folder under migration

• Data loss due to folder move from source folder under migration to destination folder not under migration

• Sharing is not supported in Team Foundation Source Control

• Versions or history of VSS Files and Folders not retrieved by Converter.

Other Warnings

The following table lists the other warnings that the converter may experience during migration or analysis:

• Potential data loss due to time zone issues with the Visual SourceSafe Database under migration.

• List of files currently checked out.

• Label names that will change as a result of migration.

• Files with VSS feature to keep latest version only.

See Also

Concepts

Interpreting the Source Control Migration Report