How to migrate project from RCS to CVS?
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I have a 20-year-old project that I would like to migrate from RCS to git, without losing the history. All web pages suggest that the One True Path is through CVS. But after an hour of Googling and trying different scripts, I have yet to find anything that successfully converts my RCS project tree to CVS. I'm hoping the good people at Stackoverflow will know what actually works, as opposed to what is claimed to work and doesn't.
(I searched Stackoverflow using both the native SO search and a Google search, but if there's a helpful answer in the database, I missed it.)
Things that don't work that I still remember:
The
rcs-to-cvs
script that ships in thecontrib
directory of the CVS sourcesThe
rcs-fast-export
tool at http://git.oblomov.eu/rcs-fast-exportThe
rcs2cvs
script found in a document called "CVS-RCS- HOW-TO Document for Linux"
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