CVS to Git migration

[Kevin Cozens]

On 13-04-22 07:28 PM, William Muriithi wrote:
> I am wondering if anyone here has migrated CVS repositories to git. I did a
> bit of research and the best method seems to be to run cvs2git against the
> current repository. That generate a file, which git can play and set up a
> git repositories.
[snip]
> /usr/local/cvs-repository/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.safetable/org.eclipse.core.resources,v
> Exception occurred while parsing
> /usr/local/cvs-repository/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.safetable/org.eclipse.core.resources,v
> ERROR: The command 'cvs -q -f -d /usr/local/cvs-repository co -r1.1 -p
> .metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.safetable/org.eclipse.core.resources'
> failed with exit status=0
> and the following output:
> cvs checkout: internal error: unsupported substitution string -ku
>
> What would "unsupported substitution" be implying?

The conversion process seems to have hit a problem dealing with RCS keywords 
that you (may) have in the file. What version of CVS do you have installed? 
The error message is saying that CVS doesn't recognize the "u" option to "-k".

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