Migrate a CVS Repo to GitHub

Instructions

The goal is to maintain the history of the CVS repo during the conversion.

1. On the CVS server:
   1. wget "http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/files/documents/1462/49237/cvs2svn-2.4.0.tar.gz"
   2. cd cvs2svn-2.4.0
   3. edit cvs2svn-example.options to match your needs. E.g.:
      1.  line ~377 cx.username
      2. line ~563 change it to the path for your CVS repository, e.g. /app/cvsrepo/cvs/someDirectory/myProject. The top of the path must contain the CVSROOT (e.g., at /app/cvsrepo)
   4. python cvs2git   --options=cvs2git-example.options --fallback-encoding utf-8
2. On a server that has git installed:
   1. copy the git-blob,dat and git-dump.dat files created in step #1 locally to /tmp
   2. mkdir myProject
   3. cd myProject
   4. git init
   5. cat /tmp/git-{blob,dump}.dat | git fast-import
   6. git log (check that there is history of commits)
   7. git reset —hard
   8. create repo on GitHub (e.g., guthub.com/myOrganization/myProject)
   9. git remote add origin git@github.com:myOrganization/myProject.git
   10. git push -u origin master

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