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cvs2git migration - cloning CVS repository

From
Rostislav Svoboda <rostislav.svoboda@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 2, 2009, 14:24 UTC
Message-ID
<286817520902020624y7f4c2942l34fafc0fe0fa0b48@mail.gmail.com>
Hi everyone

I'd like to clone a CVS repository to a local machine in order to prepare it for a migration to git. I tried:

$git cvsimport -p x -v -d
:pserver:mylogin@cvs-server:/cvs/cvsrepository cvsmodule
AuthReply: I HATE YOU
$git cvsimport -p x -v -d
:pserver:anonymous@cvs-server:/cvs/cvsrepository cvsmodule
AuthReply: E Fatal error, aborting.

I haven't found much info concerning the 'I HATE YOU'. So I'd like to ask you if I'm right: (I can't talk about this with my cvs-server administrator. He's a kind of dumb)

- git cvsimport works only using 'anonymous' account. So my real login
name won't work?
- 'AuthReply: E Fatal error, aborting.' means that the cvs-server does
not accept anonymous connections?
Is there any other way how to get the cvs repository to my local machine?
thx a lot
Bost
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  1. Rostislav SvobodaFeb 2, 2009
  2. Michael HaggertyFeb 3, 2009
  3. Johannes SchindelinFeb 3, 2009
  4. Michael HaggertyFeb 3, 2009
  5. Christian MICHONFeb 3, 2009
  6. Johannes SchindelinFeb 3, 2009
  7. Rostislav SvobodaFeb 2, 2009

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