From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:12:58 GMT
Subject: Re: git-cvsimport problem
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