{"thread":{"id":"13327","subject":"git-cvsimport problem","startedAt":"2008-04-30T05:55:34Z","lastAt":"2008-04-30T10:12:58Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Alenoosh Baghumian","Michael Haggerty"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"75632","messageId":"481809D6.5010207@opensourceclub.org","threadId":"13327","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"git-cvsimport problem","fromName":"Alenoosh Baghumian","fromEmail":"alenoosh@opensourceclub.org","sentAt":"2008-04-30T05:55:34Z","receivedAt":"2008-04-30T05:55:34Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"alenoosh@opensourceclub.org","avatar":null},"body":"Hi\n\nI want to import a remote cvs repository to git , here's what I do :\n\n$ mkdir git-test\n$ chmod 775 git-test/\n$ chmod +s git-test/\n$ chmod +t git-test/\n$ cd git-test\ngit-test$ git-cvsimport -k -i -d \n:pserver:anonymous@lib-pkp.lib.sfu.ca:/cvs -C myproj ojs2 -v\n\nthe output is the following :\n\nInitialized empty Git repository in /home/tux/git-test/myproj/.git/\nRunning cvsps...\n\n.\n.\n.\n\ncvs rlog: Logging ojs2/classes/session\ncvs rlog: Logging ojs2/classes/site\ncvs rlog: Logging ojs2/classes/submission\ncvs rlog: Logging ojs2/classes/subscription\ncvs rlog: Logging ojs2/classes/subscription/form\ncvs rlog: Logging ojs2/classes/tasks\n\n.\n.\n.\n.\n\n\ncvs rlog: Logging ojs2/pages/layoutEditor\ncvs rlog: Logging ojs2/pages/login\ncvs rlog: Logging ojs2/pages/manager\ncvs rlog: Logging ojs2/pages/oai\ncvs rlog: Logging ojs2/pages/payment\ncvs rlog: Logging ojs2/pages/proofreader\ncvs rlog: Logging ojs2/pages/reviewer\ngit-cvsimport: fatal: cvsps reported error\n\nand every time I run this , it stops at the same point and gives that error.\n\nDo you have any idea ?\n\nThanks in advance ...\n\nAlenoosh\n"},{"id":"75664","messageId":"4818462A.4090709@alum.mit.edu","threadId":"13327","inReplyTo":"481809D6.5010207@opensourceclub.org","subject":"Re: git-cvsimport problem","fromName":"Michael Haggerty","fromEmail":"mhagger@alum.mit.edu","sentAt":"2008-04-30T10:12:58Z","receivedAt":"2008-04-30T10:12:58Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"mhagger@alum.mit.edu","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/119718?v=4"},"body":"Alenoosh Baghumian wrote:\n> I want to import a remote cvs repository to git [...]\n> git-cvsimport: fatal: cvsps reported error\n\nThis is typically caused by the inability of cvsps to handle complicated\nCVS repositories or by corruption in your CVS repository.\n\nIf you are doing a one-time conversion, try using cvs2git/cvs2svn [1].\nIt is capable of handling more complicated CVS repositories.\n\nEven if you need incremental conversion, you might want to try cvs2git\nanyway, as it might give you a better error message if your CVS\nrepository is corrupt in some way.\n\nMichael\n\n[1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html\n"}]}