I received this error when just starting to convert my SourceSafe database to TFS Source Control:

TF60041: $/MyTeamProject/ThirdParty/Company3 is a descendent of $/MyTeamProject/ThirdParty

I have a ThirdParty area of SourceSafe that has most of the the third party code, etc, but some code from another thirdparty is else where, and I simply want to migrate the other third party's code in under the umbella of the ThirdParty area. Why does the VSSConverter care if the destination (TFS SC side) folder is a descendent of the ThirdParty folder?

I believe the reason for the limitation is part of a guard against duplicate file names.

What you can do about it is rather than migrating ThirdParty at the root you can specify mappings like this

$/VSS/ThirdParty/Company1

Hi Curtis,

Thanks for the response. I kind of figured that might work, and decided to postpone the migration of the offending ThirdParty code until after the migration of the main code base. I plan to migrate the final pieces of code in a separate migration at a later time.

Thanks!

Dan