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Asked: 2026-05-20T12:20:59+00:00

I did a fresh git cvsimport into a new folder, after about 30 minutes

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I did a fresh git cvsimport into a new folder, after about 30 minutes it was finally done but it didn’t seem to get any of the CVS folders. Since cvsexportcommit looks for the CVS folder in the directory, it fails. My cvsimport command was similar to below: 

git cvsimport -v -r cvs -d $CVSROOT <module>

I then made changed in a work branch, checked out master, performed another cvsimport, merged the work branch onto master but then when running:

git cvsexportcommit -w . -u -p -c ORIG_HEAD HEAD

The folder is apparently not a CVS repo, (No CVS folders anywhere).

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  1. Editorial Team

    The result of git cvsimport is a git repository. The target -w of git cvsexportcommit is a cvs working copy. If you want to export back to cvs you need to do mkdir cvsworking; cd cvsworking; cvs co $CVSROOT <module> and then from the git dir do your git cvsexportcommit -w path/to/cvsworking/module -u -p -c ORIG_HEAD HEAD. It’s not as well integrated as git-svn.

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