Hello list! cvs (1.12.12) can be compiled with --disable-server to omit support for cvs servers. Although this is not ./configure's default, it was the default on my distro (gentoo). git-cvsimport fails loudly as pasted below (note that this command is part of the test t9600-cvsimport.sh). Nicer behavior would of course be to detect the situation and inform the user that server support is missing (and to skip the test). jlh $ git-cvsimport -a -z 0 -C module-git module Unknown command: `server' CVS commands are: add Add a new file/directory to the repository admin Administration front end for rcs [...26 lines omitted...] watch Set watches watchers See who is watching a file (Specify the --help option for a list of other help options) Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at /home/jlh/cvs/git/t/../git-cvsimport line 345. Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at /home/jlh/cvs/git/t/../git-cvsimport line 346. Expected Valid-requests from server, but got: <unknown> $ - 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