[M3devel] conversion to another version control system

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 01:35:02PM -0400, hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> 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?

Should I perhaps just create an empty CVSROOT directory somewhere?

In case it indicates what I did wrong, an ancient log indicates that 
when I created the copy of the repository in the first place, I used the 
commands

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous at modula3.elegosoft.com:/usr/cvs login
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous at modula3.elegosoft.com:/usr/cvs checkout cm3

-- hendrik