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It includes a "cvsconvert" script which runs cvs-fast-convert and writes to a git repo.
It includes a "cvsconvert" script which runs cvs-fast-convert and writes to a git repo.
−HOWEVER it needs access to the CVS files, not just the cvs client!
+HOWEVER it needs access to the CVS files, not just the cvs client!<syntaxhighlight>
+[brianr@rockysmebuild cvs-fast-export]$ more cvsconvert
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+cvsconvert - convert a CVS repo and check against the original
+Convert, and check the tree content of a gitspace conversion against
+the CVS. The tip state of every branch, and every tag, is checked.
+Will produce spurious errors if any CVS branch name had to be sanitized.
+</syntaxhighlight>cvssync (part of the cvs package) is the way to go.
+See here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28693868/migration-from-cvs-to-git
+This worked:
+cvssync brianr@shell.koozali.org:/cvs/smecontribs/rpms smeserver-ddclient
+it creates a directory "smeserver-ddclient" of the CVS files.
+and "find . | cvs-fast-export | git fast-import" also did something, although I am not sure it was quite what I expected!!
+TBC (WIP)
