trying to import from cvs

[Dennis Haupt]

i'm trying to import a cvs repo into a git repo using msysgit (i have zero unix experience), but calling "git-cvsimport" gives me the error message "can't exec "cvsps": no such file or directory at ...."

how can i fix it? why isn't it included in msysgit?

[Pat Thoyts]

From the ReleaseNotes file that is presented when you install Git for Windows:

"Known issues
Some commands are not yet supported on Windows and excluded from the
installation; namely: git archimport, git cvsexportcommit, git
cvsimport, git cvsserver, git instaweb, git shell."

Specifically, cvsps is a unix program. It would require porting to
Windows and at the very least something would need to be done about
its use of 'fork'. There may be a cygwin port around but no one has
provided a msys/native port for inclusion in git for windows. To fix
this would require providing a release script to fetch the cvsps
source, apply some patches to make it work under windows then compile
and install into the msysGit tree. Any of the subdirectories under the
msysGit/src/ directory can provide examples of such a script.