Git and cvsimport

[Marin Atanasov <dnaeon@gmail.com>]

Hello,

I need to import an existing CVS repo to Git. Using git-cvsimport
works well for me when importing from the CVS server itself, but I
need to do something different.

Here's a little info about what I'm doing.

$ pwd
/home/<user>/test

$ git --version
git version 1.5.6.5

$ git cvsimport -v -d :pserver:<user>@<server>:/var/
cvsroot -C test.git test-repo
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/<user>/test/test.git/.git/
Running cvsps...
connect error: Network is unreachable
cvs rlog: Logging test-repo
Fetching file1   v 1.1
New file1: 14 bytes
Fetching file2   v 1.1
New file2: 14 bytes
Fetching file3   v 1.1
New file3: 14 bytes
Tree ID bf675ce25c8ca3fd1f4a120ea933510c90ccda16
Parent ID (empty)
Committed patch 1 (origin +0000 2010-04-26 09:40:58)
Commit ID 377641eae81975e214a579da9e6c0c5afd819b17
Created tag 'SOMETAG' on 'origin'
Fetching file1   v 1.2
Update file1: 47 bytes
Fetching file3   v 1.2
Update file3: 47 bytes
Tree ID 10ab70cdcc53bb94684d09e60817bb62cb8c3d98
Parent ID 377641eae81975e214a579da9e6c0c5afd819b17
Committed patch 2 (origin +0000 2010-04-26 09:44:22)
Commit ID fea2a99c906e57df5c4735ba3f9627cbb8fba295
DONE; creating master branch

The above commands works fine, when I directly get the files from the
CVS server, but I want to do the following.

 - checkout files from CVS, which are already tagged with certain
names to a local folder
 - then import those files to Git with git-cvsimport
 - fetch those imports later by a shared bare repo into different
branches, so at the end each branch will contain the files with the
certain tag.

So, If i do the following, then git-cvsimport fails:

$ pwd
/home/<user>/test

$ cvs -d :pserver:<user>@<server>:/var/cvsroot co -r SOMETAG test-repo
cvs checkout: Updating test-repo
U test-repo/file1
U test-repo/file2
U test-repo/file3

$ git cvsimport -v -d /home/<user>/test -C test.git test-repo
Expected Valid-requests from server, but got: E Cannot access
/home/<user>/test/CVSROOT

Can you give me some hints how to do this? Seems that I can import CVS
repos from remote server, but cannot do this from a local folder..

Thanks and regards,
Marin

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Marin Atanasov Nikolov
dnaeon AT gmail DOT com
daemon AT unix-heaven DOT org