Re: Best way of converting CVS repo to git ?

[Carlo Wood]

Long ago I wrote a mini-HOWTO on how to convert from CVS to SVN:
http://carlowood.github.io/svn/cvs2svn.html

Perhaps it helps in that after that a conversion from svn to git
is easier.

Carlo Wood

On Tue, 3 Jan 2023 11:40:45 +0100
Øystein Schønning-Johansen <oysteijo@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, savannah-users!
> 
> I'm one of the maintainers/developers of the GNU project GNU
> Backgammon (gnubg) and we are actually still using CVS as our main
> repo. We would like to convert our main code base to git, as we
> strongly believe this has become the new standard for developing open
> source projects. Hopefully, converting from CVS to git will attract
> new contributors to the project.
> 
> The question is: How is it best to do this?
> 
> I have already added the git feature on the project admin page, but
> the git repo is (of course) still empty.
> 
> Best regards,
> Øystein Schønning-Johansen
> Maintainer/Developer of GNU Backgammon