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The following code needs Visual Source Safe to be installed, and produces a list of all file versions for the project folder set up as ‘my $project’.  Remember to set the network folder where the ss.ini file lives.

The program outputs a tab separated list of:
filename->version->user->date->comment.

Enjoy! My next post will take this file and dump out the lines added, changed, deleted for whatever subset of the check-ins that you are interested in.


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
 
#-------------------------------------------------------------------
# Given a source project folder, list the files and check-in details
#
# ToDo:
# Progress indicator
# Usage output.
# Take command-line arguments
#-------------------------------------------------------------------
 
$ENV{'SSDIR'} = "<source safe folder on network>";
my $project = "<source safe project>";
 
# Start with the project folder
my @files;
open( ssFiles, "ss Dir \$/$project|");
 
# Iterate through the list of files
while( <ssFiles> ) {
 
    # Get all the cpp and .h files
    if( /.*\.cpp/ || /.*\.h/ ) {
        push @files, $_;
    }
}
close( ssFiles );
 
# Print a header line
print "Filename\tVersion\tDeveloper\tDate\tComment\n";
 
# Iterate over the list of chomp'ed files (removes trailing newlines)
chomp( @files );
foreach( @files ) {
 
    # What we are looking at
    my $file = $_;
    my $lastver = -1;
    my( $ver, $use, $date, $com );
    
    # Get history of versions for file, excluding build labels
    open( ssHistory, "ss History \$/$project/$_|");
    while( <ssHistory> ) {
        
        # Get version number
        if( m/^.*Version (\d*) .*/ ) {
            $ver = $1;
        }
        
        # Get user name
        if( m/^.*User\: (\w*).*Date\:.* (\d+)\/(\d*)\/(\d*) .*Time.*/ ) {
            $use = $1;
            $date = "$2/$3/20$4";
        }
        
        # Get comment        
        if( m/^.*Comment\: (.*).*$/ ) {
            $com = $1;
        }
        
        # If we have all vars populated and haven't already printed this version check-in
        # then go ahead and print it out
        if( /^$/ && $ver && $use && $lastver!=$ver ) {  # $com optional
            $lastver = $ver;
            print "$file\t$ver\t$use\t$date\t$com\n";
            
            # We are done with this data now
            $ver = $use = $date = $com = undef;
        }
    }
 
    # Close command stream    
    close( ssHistory );
 
}
exit 0;