* fe...@crowfix.com <fe...@crowfix.com> wrote:

> I found git has a cvsimport command, but it complained that cvs didn't
> recognize the server command, and some hints I saw of requiring cvs 2
> made me pause ... all I can see is cvs 1.12. 

echo "dev-vcs/cvs server" >> /etc/portage/package.use && emerge -1 cvs

> I am not  excited at git expecting a cvs server; I'll be danged if I'm
> going to muck around with that just to convert a few files when git
> has direct access to the ,v files themselves.

You dont need to have an cvs server listening on some port.
git-cvsimport just uses the cvs server command to check out
individual revisions. Directly working on *,v files would require
an completely separate implementation, just for the special case
of importing local repos.


cu
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