Go2Group Services - Migration

Go2Group can support migration of your existing version control data to Perforce. In addition to having experience with publicly available conversion utilities to convert from CVS and RCS, Go2Group has developed an insightful, lightweight approach to migrations using our P4BBI.

Our Perforce Baseline & Branch Importer (P4BBI) provides an alternative approach to SCM migrations. This approach has provided a competitive advantage by offering a low cost alternative migration strategy to clients migrating from systems for which no supported migration tool exists, such as ClearCase and Subversion. It is a generic approach to import only "interesting" history from any SCM system into Perforce. Interesting history is captured in histograms, which define a series of baselines and major branching operations to capture and import. Even in cases where a supported migration tool exists, the P4BBI provides a way to leave behind years of uninteresting history, bringing forward into Perforce just enough information to support maintenance activities on old codelines.

This provides a cost-effective and technically straightforward way to migrate from IBM Rational ClearCase, by importing key baselines and enough branching history information to enable post-migration merge operations to work correctly.