Migrate from CVS to Git without losing history

Question

I need to know if there is a way to migrate my code from CVS source control to Git?

If yes, what about my history of commits?

Answer 1

Migration from CVS to Git using cvs2svn

Sharing all step for migration CVS to git

1. create directory a cvsProject in anyDir

Rsync: your cvs repo:  
 1. $rsync -av  CVSUserName@CVSipAdrress:/CVS_Path/ProjectName/*  ~/anyDir/ProjectName


 2. cd $../cvs2svn-x.x.0 && ./cvs2git --options=cvs2git-example.options

 3. $./cvs2git --blobfile=cvs2git-tmp/git-blob.dat \
          --dumpfile=cvs2git-tmp/git-dump.dat \
          --username=CVS_YOUR_USER_NAME \
          /path_of_step(1)/cvsProject 

 Note: if get any encoding error then add this into above command:"--encoding=ascii --encoding=utf8 --encoding=utf16 --encoding=latin" 

 4. mkdir newGitRepo && cd newGitRepo 
 5. git init --bare
 6. git fast-import --export-marks=/x.x.x/cvs2svn-2.5.0/cvs2git-tmp/git-marks.dat \
  

wow now you are done, now you can push your repo to git..
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