Re: Importance of CVSROOT folder while CVS to GIT migration

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 12:29 PM, anithavenkatesh
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I am trying to convert CVS dump files to git dat files by running below
> command:
>
> cvs2git --blobfile=cvs2svn-tmp/git-blob.dat
> --dumpfile=cvs2svn-tmp/git-dump.dat --retain-conflicting-attic-files
> --use-cvs --fallback-encoding=ascii -vvv --username=cvs2svn
> /anitha/xfortCallouts
>
> But, above command fails with below error:
> ERROR: the path '/anitha/xfortCallouts' is not a CVS repository, nor a path
> within a CVS repository. A CVS repository contains a CVSROOT directory
> within its root directory.
>
> So, i created an empty CVSROOT directory under anitha folder and i could run
> above command successfully and all 16 passes were successful. Is it ok to
> proceed ahead of GIT migration or is it not a right way to create CVSROOT
> empty folder? Kindly confirm.

An empty CVSROOT directory is fine. The directory must be there
because it is a requirement if you are running `cvs` to extract the
data from your old repository, but none of its contents are used.

Michael

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