Git

Importing a CVS project from SourceForge into git

First, grab a clone of the remote CVS repository. The easiest way to do this with a SourceForge without having to actually use CVS and pserver logins and whatnot is to use rsync:

rsync -avz rsync://meta-extractor.cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/meta-extractor cvs-clone

Now we're going to import the history of the relevant CVS module (in this case, "metadata-extractor") into a new git repository.

sudo apt-get install git-cvsimport
git cvsimport -C meta-extractor.git -p x -v -d $(pwd)/cvs-clone metadata-extractor

Now you can push your new git project to Github or somewhere:

cd meta-extractor.git
git remote add origin <your-new-git-repo>
git push --tags master

You're good to go!