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Documentation around tools to import from CVS was fairly outdated. * jk/doc-cvs-update: docs/cvs-migration: mention cvsimport caveats docs/cvs-migration: update link to cvsps homepage docs/cvsimport: prefer cvs-fast-export to parsecvs
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Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt

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deprecated; it does not work with cvsps version 3 and later. If you are
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performing a one-shot import of a CVS repository consider using
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http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html[cvs2git] or
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https://github.com/BartMassey/parsecvs[parsecvs].
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http://www.catb.org/esr/cvs-fast-export/[cvs-fast-export].
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Imports a CVS repository into Git. It will either create a new
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repository, or incrementally import into an existing one.

Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt

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Importing a CVS archive
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NOTE: These instructions use the `git-cvsimport` script which ships with
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git, but other importers may provide better results. See the note in
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linkgit:git-cvsimport[1] for other options.
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First, install version 2.1 or higher of cvsps from
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http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/[http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/] and make
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https://github.com/andreyvit/cvsps[https://github.com/andreyvit/cvsps] and make
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sure it is in your path. Then cd to a checked out CVS working directory
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of the project you are interested in and run linkgit:git-cvsimport[1]:
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