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Re: cvs2git migration - cloning CVS repository

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Rostislav Svoboda <rostislav.svoboda@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 2, 2009, 16:05 UTC
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2009/2/2 David Syzdek <syzdek@gmail.com>:
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> Rostislav,
> I ran into this issue when I  tried to import my CVS repository into Git.
>  Be sure to issue a CVS login before attempting the import:
>
> cvs -d :pserver:mylogin@cvs-server:/cvs/cvsrepository login

Yea! that's it! THX! IMHO it won't be bad to have it somewhere in the git-cvsimport and/or gitcvs-migration documentation (short notice would be enough) even if the 'AuthReply: I HATE YOU' comes out of git. It would save me more than a couple of hours if it were there...

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Message 7 of 7 in “cvs2git migration - cloning CVS repository”
  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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