cvs2git migration - cloning CVS repository

Hi everyone

I'd like to clone a CVS repository to a local machine in order to
prepare it for a migration to git. I tried:

$git cvsimport -p x -v -d
:pserver:mylogin@cvs-server:/cvs/cvsrepository cvsmodule
AuthReply: I HATE YOU
$git cvsimport -p x -v -d
:pserver:anonymous@cvs-server:/cvs/cvsrepository cvsmodule
AuthReply: E Fatal error, aborting.

I haven't found much info concerning the 'I HATE YOU'. So I'd like to
ask you if I'm right:
(I can't talk about this with my cvs-server administrator. He's a kind of dumb)

- git cvsimport works only using 'anonymous' account. So my real login
name won't work?
- 'AuthReply: E Fatal error, aborting.' means that the cvs-server does
not accept anonymous connections?

Is there any other way how to get the cvs repository to my local machine?

thx a lot

Bost

Rostislav Svoboda wrote:

I'd like to clone a CVS repository to a local machine in order to
prepare it for a migration to git. I tried:

$git cvsimport -p x -v -d
[...]

If your goal is a high-quality one-time conversion from CVS to git, then
you would be better off getting a filesystem copy of the CVS repository
then converting with cvs2git [1].  "git cvsimport" does not convert a
CVS repository faithfully to git, though it might barely be adequate if
you absolutely need to keep git and CVS in sync.

If you do not have filesystem access to your CVS repository, you might
be able to clone it using CVSSuck [2,3].

Michael
the cvs2svn/cvs2git maintainer

[1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html
[2] http://cvs.m17n.org/~akr/cvssuck/
[3] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/faq.html#repoaccess

Hi,

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Michael Haggerty wrote:

If you do not have filesystem access to your CVS repository, you might 
be able to clone it using CVSSuck [2,3].

A substantially faster option would be to go with cvsclone:

	http://samba.org/ftp/tridge/rtc/cvsclone.l

(in my case, cvsclone was not only faster, but it actually worked, too, 
which is more than I could say of CVSSuck).

Note: it only works for anonymous access so far.

Note also: for my use case, it was necessary to edit the rlog, as those 
brilliant geniuses included verbatim cvs logs for files they moved. *sigh*
If you need something like that, I can give you my patched version.

Ciao,
Dscho

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Michael Haggerty wrote:

quoted

If you do not have filesystem access to your CVS repository, you might 
be able to clone it using CVSSuck [2,3].

A substantially faster option would be to go with cvsclone:

	http://samba.org/ftp/tridge/rtc/cvsclone.l

(in my case, cvsclone was not only faster, but it actually worked, too, 
which is more than I could say of CVSSuck).

Note: it only works for anonymous access so far.

Note also: for my use case, it was necessary to edit the rlog, as those 
brilliant geniuses included verbatim cvs logs for files they moved. *sigh*
If you need something like that, I can give you my patched version.

Thanks for the pointer.  I just added it to the cvs2svn/cvs2git FAQ [1].

Michael

[1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/faq.html

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Johannes Schindelin
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Michael Haggerty wrote:

quoted

If you do not have filesystem access to your CVS repository, you might
be able to clone it using CVSSuck [2,3].

A substantially faster option would be to go with cvsclone:

       http://samba.org/ftp/tridge/rtc/cvsclone.l

(in my case, cvsclone was not only faster, but it actually worked, too,
which is more than I could say of CVSSuck).

fantastic, really! :)
it saves almost half a day of git-cvsimport on vim7 cvs official repository.

Dscho rulez... Kudos...

-- 
Christian
--
http://detaolb.sourceforge.net/, a linux distribution for Qemu with Git inside !

Hi,

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Christian MICHON wrote:

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Johannes Schindelin
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Michael Haggerty wrote:

quoted

If you do not have filesystem access to your CVS repository, you might
be able to clone it using CVSSuck [2,3].

A substantially faster option would be to go with cvsclone:

       http://samba.org/ftp/tridge/rtc/cvsclone.l

(in my case, cvsclone was not only faster, but it actually worked, too,
which is more than I could say of CVSSuck).

fantastic, really! :)
it saves almost half a day of git-cvsimport on vim7 cvs official repository.

Dscho rulez... Kudos...

Hey, thanks!

For interested parties, I set up a repository at

	http://repo.or.cz/w/cvsclone.git

Note: this is by no means an official repository, and it contains 
adaptations I needed for a very special case (which cost me 1 week to find 
out what the problem was, and a day to fix, and 2 months later, they 
switched to Subversion ;-)

Ciao,
Dscho