This reminiscing now has me moving Redfoot and PyTREX over to github :-)

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You can get the raw CVS repo with

    rsync -av rsync://{project}.cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/{project}/ {directory-to-put-cvs}

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## Attempt 1

In another directory, I tried (based on [this](http://ghantoos.org/2010/11/11/migrating-sourceforge-cvs-source-repository-to-github/)):

    git cvsimport -p x -v -d {directory-you-put-cvs} {directory-to-put-git}

but first I have to

    brew install cvs

:-)

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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
```

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Looks like

    brew install cvsps

worked :-)

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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.
```

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Reading the `cvsimport` man page makes me think I should try [cvs2git](http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html) instead.

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## Attempt 2

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}


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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


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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.

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Seems the key is customizing the cvs2git options file.

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## Attempt 3

Copied the example options file into my own `cvs2git.options` file and edited the `author_transforms` dictionary and the hardcoded `test-data/main-cvsrepos`.

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Did

    mkdir {gitdir}
    git init {gitdir}
    cd {gitdir}

again.

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And finally:

    cat ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-blob.dat ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-dump.dat | git fast-import
    git checkout master


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And here is [Redfoot](https://github.com/jtauber/redfoot-orig)