Re: trouble getting git cvsimport working

does git need more than cvsps to work (I assumed my package manager had installed all needed deps)? I installed cvs after you pointed that out...

git cvsimport -a -v -d
:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gentoo.org/var/cvsroot/ gentoo-x86 -C
portage
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/portdev/cvs/portage/.git/
Running cvsps...
parse error on third token
WARNING: malformed CVS version str: Server: (unknown)
WARNING: Your CVS client version:
[Client: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.12.12 (client)]
and/or server version:
[Server: (unknown)]
are too old to properly support the rlog command.
This command was introduced in 1.11.1.  Cvsps
will use log instead, but PatchSet numbering
may become unstable due to pruned empty
directories.

cvs log: warning: failed to open /home/portdev/.cvspass for reading: No such file or directory cvs log: in directory .: cvs [log aborted]: there is no version here; run 'cvs checkout' first DONE; creating master branch fatal: refs/heads/origin: not a valid SHA1 fatal: master: not a valid SHA1 fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born checkout failed: 32768