10.6 Importing from CVS
If you’re coming to Git from CVS, there are some hurdles you must
jump over compared to Subversion. In fact, the most reliable
method for converting a CVS repository to Git is to convert it to a
Subversion repository first using the cvs2svn command.[31] cvs2svn is a tool
for converting a CVS repository to a Subversion repository.
Git ships with a tool for importing CVS repositories called
git cvsimport. But since the cvs2svn
command is much more stable to a Git repository, we’ll focus on it.
To start with, you need to get revision control system (RCS)
files from your CVS repository. Once you have those, you need to convert them
to an SVN dump file using the cvs2svn tool:
|
prompt> cd /path/to/cvs-rcs-files ... |
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