I needed to convert a CVS repository into a GIT repository. This can be done using cvs2git, given file level access to the CVS repository.

The following process worked for me. I downloaded the latest version (2.4) from http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=2976&expandFolder=2976&folderID=3984

I then built and installed it using:

$ cd cvs2svn-trunk
$ …

I had a large CVS repository which I wanted to move between two unix boxes. I would normally just created a tar on the source machine, then transferred that tar file using sftp. This wasn't possible in this case as there wasn't enough disk space.

It is possible to tar …