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Please vote up the source control system that you need us to support in our Super Easy Import Into Kiln Tool™ (or add if missing).

Update: Please try our "Import your existing Subversion/Git/Mercurial repository (or even a plain old directory of files on your local machine) into Kiln" tool by clicking the "Download and run the Kiln Import tool" link on any Empty Repository page.

edited Feb 15 2010 at 14:43

Tyler Hicks-Wright♦♦
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asked Oct 16 2009 at 19:51

Ben Kamens♦
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My vision for how the tool should work, would just be a web interface where you provide a URL. For git/mercurial repos, it would work very straight forward. For SVN you might have to specify layout since while the trunk/branches/tags layout is fairly standard, not everybody follows it. My 2 cents. – Daniel Huckstep Oct 18 2009 at 18:16

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I think you're going to be pleasantly surprised by what we've got in store. – Benjamin Pollack♦ Oct 19 2009 at 20:13

Ben Kamens · Answer 1 · 2009-10-16 19:52:23Z UTC

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Subversion

answered Oct 16 2009 at 19:52

Ben Kamens♦
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Douglas McClean · Answer 2 · 2009-10-16 23:00:26Z UTC

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I use SourceGear Vault, but I can live without my old history.

answered Oct 16 2009 at 23:00

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	I use Vault too, but CAN'T live without my old history. – johnfx Jan 19 2010 at 16:01
	Dito with the vault history. This information is probably the one reason we have not moved to git or mecurial yet. Full FogBugz integration is almost enough of a feature to push us toward Kiln but it will take many a verbose staff meeting to overcome. – Jerome Mar 17 2010 at 17:56

Ben Kamens · Answer 3 · 2009-10-16 19:52:51Z UTC

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Git / GitHub

answered Oct 16 2009 at 19:52

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Rock Hymas · Answer 4 · 2009-10-16 20:23:41Z UTC

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Code on local machine, no source control

answered Oct 16 2009 at 20:23

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AviD · Answer 5 · 2009-12-30 22:37:20Z UTC

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Team Foundation Server (TFS)

answered Dec 30 2009 at 22:37

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Greg Saven · Answer 6 · 2009-10-17 16:52:16Z UTC

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Perforce

answered Oct 17 2009 at 16:52

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I also require perforce support. And not just perforce "import" but perforce integration. We us a lot of perforce features, and it is deeply built into our workflow (as it is for all the perforce sites I know). We need perforce integration the way crucible offers it. – sam jones Oct 19 2009 at 4:14

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Thanks for the feedback. As mentioned at kiln.stackexchange.com/questions/140/…, we're likely to get perforce "import" in the hands of customers much earlier than full perforce integration. That's actually true for all non-Mercurial SCMs for Kiln version 1.0. – Ben Kamens♦ Oct 19 2009 at 13:00

How many serious dev shops are going to dump their VCS to use Kiln? – sam jones Oct 19 2009 at 18:40

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We're hoping quite a few. It's Fog Creek's position that distributed source control is far superior to the old centralized way of doing things, and Kiln 1.0 is the beginning of our attempt to expose user-friendly DVCS and powerful code reviews to those who are stuck in old (but still massively used) systems. If you're unwilling to switch, that's your choice...but we think trial use of Kiln may change your mind. In later versions of Kiln we may provide lots of the code review functionality for non-Kiln SCMs. – Ben Kamens♦ Oct 19 2009 at 21:15

Ben Kamens · Answer 7 · 2009-10-16 19:53:30Z UTC

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Mercurial / BitBucket

answered Oct 16 2009 at 19:53

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Greg Saven · Answer 8 · 2009-12-14 23:59:07Z UTC

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Visual SourceSafe

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answered Oct 17 2009 at 17:15

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Peter Štibraný · Answer 9 · 2009-10-17 06:35:20Z UTC

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CVS

answered Oct 17 2009 at 6:35

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community wiki

Scott Ventura · Answer 10 · 2010-08-16 21:40:42Z UTC

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Accurev import would be a major incentive for my group.

answered Aug 16 2010 at 21:40

Scott Ventura
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Benjamin Pollack · Answer 11 · 2009-10-16 22:56:13Z UTC

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Store

answered Oct 16 2009 at 22:56

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What source control system do you need to import into Kiln?

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