This reminiscing now has me moving Redfoot and PyTREX over to github :-)
You can get the raw CVS repo with
rsync -av rsync://{project}.cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/{project}/ {directory-to-put-cvs}
In another directory, I tried (based on this):
git cvsimport -p x -v -d {directory-you-put-cvs} {directory-to-put-git}
but first I have to
brew install cvs
:-)
Even that doesn't work, though, as now I get:
$ git cvsimport -p x -v -d /Users/jtauber/Development/OpenSource/redfoot redfoot
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/jtauber/Development/OpenSource/redfoot.git/.git/
Running cvsps...
Can't exec "cvsps": No such file or directory at /usr/local/Cellar/git/1.9.3/libexec/git-core/git-cvsimport line 756, <GEN0> line 2.
Could not start cvsps: No such file or directory
git cvsimport: fatal: cvsps reported error
Looks like
brew install cvsps
worked :-)
But now I get:
$ git cvsimport -p x -v -d /Users/jtauber/Development/OpenSource/redfoot redfoot
fatal: Needed a single revision
Branch 'origin' does not exist.
Either use the correct '-o branch' option,
or import to a new repository.
Downloaded csv2git (tarball from tigris linked above, no brew installing here).
Then ran
cvs2svn-2.4.0/cvs2git --blobfile=git-blob.dat --dumpfile=git-dump.dat --username={my-username} {directory-i-put-cvs}
Then I did a
mkdir {gitdir}
git init {gitdir}
cd {gitdir}
Then
cat ../git-blob.dat ../git-dump.dat | git fast-import
git checkout master
While that seems to contain all the commits, we don't have the author email addresses so pushing to GitHub doesn't make a link with the right user accounts.
Seems the key is customizing the cvs2git options file.
Copied the example options file into my own cvs2git.options file and edited the author_transforms dictionary and the hardcoded test-data/main-cvsrepos.
Did
mkdir {gitdir}
git init {gitdir}
cd {gitdir}
again.
And finally:
cat ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-blob.dat ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-dump.dat | git fast-import
git checkout master