Is there a migration tool from CVS to Git?

Question

I intend to switch over from CVS to Git. In the case of SVN, there seems to be cvs2svn. Is there a similar tool to easily migrate from CVS to Git?

Answer 1

I read the answer by Vanuan and mhagger's comments to it. Unfortunately mhagger didn't post how to do it with cvs2git. It is all very well written up here: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~jacob/cvs2svn/cvs2git.html

I used cvs2git instead of git-cvsimport because the documentation of git-cvsimport suggests to use it instead to avoid the problems of git-cvsimport: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-cvsimport.html#issues

It follows essence of it that worked for me to create a git repository from a sourceforge CVS repository on Debian Sid:

$ apt-get install cvs2svn cvs
$ mkdir project.cvs
$ rsync -av rsync://${PROJECT}.cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/${PROJECT}/ project.cvs
$ cvs2git --blobfile=git-blob.dat --dumpfile=git-dump.dat --username=cvs2git project.cvs
$ mkdir project.git
$ cd project.git
$ git init
$ cat ../git-blob.dat ../git-dump.dat | git fast-import

The rsync step is needed because cvs2git needs access to the whole history. A simple checkout is not enough.