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From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: git-cvsimport problem
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:12:58 +0200
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Alenoosh Baghumian wrote:
> I want to import a remote cvs repository to git [...]
> git-cvsimport: fatal: cvsps reported error

This is typically caused by the inability of cvsps to handle complicated
CVS repositories or by corruption in your CVS repository.

If you are doing a one-time conversion, try using cvs2git/cvs2svn [1].
It is capable of handling more complicated CVS repositories.

Even if you need incremental conversion, you might want to try cvs2git
anyway, as it might give you a better error message if your CVS
repository is corrupt in some way.

Michael

[1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html