On the git tools wiki, the first paragraph of the entry for cvsps now reads: Warning: this code has been end-of-lifed by its maintainer in favor of cvs-fast-export. Several attempts over the space of a year to repair its deficient branch analysis and tag assignment have failed. Do not use it unless you are converting a strictly linear repository and cannot get rsync/ssh read access to the repo masters. If you must use it, be prepared to inspect and manually correct the history using reposurgeon. I tried very hard to salvage this program - the ability to remote-fetch CVS repos without rsync access was appealing - but I reached my limit earlier today when I actually found time to assemble a test set of CVS repos and run head-to-head tests comparing cvsps output to cvs-fast-export output. I've long believed that that cvs-fast-export has a better analyzer than cvsps just from having read the code for both of them, and having had to fix some serious bugs in cvsps that have no analogs in cvs-fast-export. Direct comparison of the stream outputs revealed that the difference in quality was larger than I had prevously grasped. Alas, I'm afraid the cvsps repo analysis code turns out to be crap all the way down on anything but the simplest linear and near-linear cases, and it doesn't do so hot on even those (all this *after* I fixed the most obvious bugs in the 2.x version). In retrospect, trying to repair it was misdirected effort. I recommend that git sever its dependency on this tool as soon as possible. I have shipped a 3.13 release with deprecation warnings fot archival purposes, after which I will cease maintainance and redirect anyone inquiring about cvsps to cvs-fast-export. (I also maintain cvs-fast-export, but credit for the excellent analysis code goes to Keith Packard. All I did was write the output stage, document it, and fix a few minor bugs.) -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> You [should] not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harm it would cause if improperly administered -- Lyndon Johnson, former President of the U.S. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html