# cvs2git failed in pass2 ... 5 messages from 2012-02-21 to 2019-01-07. Participants: supadhyay, paduarte, Jonathan Nieder. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/29681 ## supadhyay, 2012-02-21 12:52 Subject: cvs2git failed in pass2 ... Message-ID: <1329828722466-7304605.post@n2.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1329828722466-7304605.post%40n2.nabble.com ``` Hi All, I am using cvs2svn tool to convert my CVS repository to GIT. I have download the "cvs2svn-2.3.0.tar.gz" file. I have created git user to install GIT and then using the same user (git) I try to run "./cvs2git" command below way. ./cvs2git \ --blobfile=/home/git/tmp/git-files/git-blob.dat \ --dumpfile=/home/git/tmp/git-files/git-dump.dat \ --username=git /opt/source/Repo_from_CVS/VD It took around 10 mins to finish pass1 and for pass 2 it raised the warnings and messages like below ============================================================== Done Time for pass1 (CollectRevsPass): 526.3 seconds. ----- pass 2 (CleanMetadataPass) ----- Converting metadata to UTF8... WARNING: Problem decoding log message: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- version 4 - Note concerning “Leave One” option for Internal Duplicate Check added --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WARNING: Problem decoding log message: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...... ...... ...... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WARNING: Problem decoding log message: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- all labels to be right-justified all labels to end with “:” removed Selected Error Codes label ‘Select One’ dropdowns are horizontally aligned with corresponding text boxes --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ERROR: There were warnings converting author names and/or log messages to Unicode (see messages above). Please restart this pass with one or more '--encoding' parameters or with '--fallback-encoding'. *********************************************************************************** can any one suggest me how to overcome this warning or any workaround ?? Thanks in advance... -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/cvs2git-failed-in-pass2-tp7304605p7304605.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ``` ## supadhyay, 2012-02-21 14:19 Subject: Re: cvs2git failed in pass2 ... Message-ID: <1329833989049-7304832.post@n2.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1329833989049-7304832.post%40n2.nabble.com In-Reply-To: <1329828722466-7304605.post@n2.nabble.com> ``` Hi All, Can any one know how to overcome this error... I tried with --encoding=UTF8 but the same error. I also gave a try with --fallback-encoding but seems like its exclude comments from their output as shown below: Time for pass2 (CleanMetadataPass): 0.590 seconds. cvs2svn Statistics: ------------------ Total CVS Files: 9025 Total CVS Revisions: 39243 Total CVS Branches: 76789 Total CVS Tags: 1276127 Total Unique Tags: 480 Total Unique Branches: 32 CVS Repos Size in KB: 872465 First Revision Date: Mon Aug 2 15:07:28 2004 Last Revision Date: Fri Feb 17 13:10:27 2012 ------------------ *(These are unaltered CVS repository stats and do not reflect tags or branches excluded via --exclude) Timings (seconds):* ------------------ 530.3 pass1 CollectRevsPass 0.6 pass2 CleanMetadataPass 530.9 total -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/cvs2git-failed-in-pass2-tp7304605p7304832.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ``` ## supadhyay, 2012-02-21 15:17 Subject: Re: cvs2git failed in pass2 ... Message-ID: <1329837442995-7305031.post@n2.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1329837442995-7305031.post%40n2.nabble.com In-Reply-To: <1329828722466-7304605.post@n2.nabble.com> ``` Hi All, I am able to run cvs2git command successfully by adding --encoding=ascii --encoding=utf8 --encoding=utf16 --encoding=latin Thanks... -- View this message in context: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/cvs2git-failed-in-pass2-tp7304605p7305031.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ``` ## paduarte, 2019-01-07 15:06 Subject: Re: cvs2git failed in pass2 ... Message-ID: <1546873568530-0.post@n2.nabble.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1546873568530-0.post%40n2.nabble.com In-Reply-To: <1329837442995-7305031.post@n2.nabble.com> ``` Hi supadhyay How did the complete command work? cvs2git --encoding=ascii --encoding=utf8 --encoding=utf16 --encoding=latin or cvs2git --encoding=ascii --encoding=utf8 --encoding=utf16 --encoding=latin *+ parameters of git* ? Tks :) -- Sent from: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/ ``` ## Jonathan Nieder, 2019-01-07 23:13 Subject: Re: cvs2git failed in pass2 ... Message-ID: <20190107231325.GC192553@google.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20190107231325.GC192553%40google.com In-Reply-To: <1546873568530-0.post@n2.nabble.com> ``` +users@cvs2svn.tigris.org paduarte wrote: Hi, > How did the complete command work? > > cvs2git --encoding=ascii --encoding=utf8 --encoding=utf16 --encoding=latin > > or > > cvs2git --encoding=ascii --encoding=utf8 --encoding=utf16 --encoding=latin > *+ parameters of git* > > ? Cc-ing the cvs2git users list, who may be able to help you. Thanks and hope that helps, Jonathan > Tks > :) ```