[M3devel] conversion to another version control system

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

I was tinkering with a copy of the Modula 3 cvs repository I had made 
a few months ago using cvsup, seeing of cvs2git would make me a proper 
git-fast-import file.  It complained that what I provided wasn't a valid 
CVS repository:

ERROR: the path '/farhome/hendrik/newcm3/trywholecvs/cvs' is not a CVS 
repository, nor a path within a CVS repository.  A CVS repository 
contains a CVSROOT directory within its root directory.

Now I looked around, and couldn't find a CVSROOT directory anywhere 
except in /usr/lib/cvs, which is probably irrelevant.

Is this a problem with cvs2git, a problem with the repository, or a 
problem with cvsup, or a problem with the way I used cvsup to copy the 
repository?  Or would any regular cvs user know just exactly what to do?

By the way, the recent problems mentioned on this list about cvsup 
have made me afraid to use it again.  Are those problems restricted to a 
few platforms, or widespread?

-- hendrik