git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: git-cvsimport problem

From
Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date
Apr 30, 2008, 10:12 UTC
Message-ID
<4818462A.4090709@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To
<481809D6.5010207@opensourceclub.org>
Alenoosh Baghumian wrote:
> I want to import a remote cvs repository to git [...]
> git-cvsimport: fatal: cvsps reported error

This is typically caused by the inability of cvsps to handle complicated CVS repositories or by corruption in your CVS repository.

If you are doing a one-time conversion, try using cvs2git/cvs2svn [1]. It is capable of handling more complicated CVS repositories.

Even if you need incremental conversion, you might want to try cvs2git anyway, as it might give you a better error message if your CVS repository is corrupt in some way.

Michael
[1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html
Previous: Alenoosh Baghumian
Message 2 of 2 in “git-cvsimport problem”
  1. Alenoosh BaghumianApr 30, 2008
  2. Michael HaggertyApr 30, 2008

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.