surroundscm

I'm trying to use global variables within Jenkins on Windows to "automagically" retrieve the proper code base from our SCM system, but in each case that I've tried the variable substitution is not happening. I've set up some global variables, with default values, within "Configure System" and have tried to access them with $VARIABLE , ${VARIABLE} and %VARIABLE% as part of the Branch field for the Surround SCM plugin with no success whatsoever. I've also installed the Global Variable String Parameter plugin with the same success rate (0%). Using a literal value works just fine, but no type of

My company has a large codebase in Surround SCM, which was migrated from SourceSafe a few years ago. We're looking to move to something more suited to our needs, but getting our history out of Surround is proving to be a challenge. Googling for git importers, I found a good tutorial on custom importers . There also appears to be support for svn, perforce, and many others, but no Surround. Would it be better to just take a snapshot and start a new git repo? Or is it worth writing a script to get 15+ years of code history? VonC In this kind of scenario, a script can be written, but not for