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I am trying to migrate cvs to git repository. I tried to test how it works. So I tried to access cvs public repository using the doc

There is support to access cvs repositories with an anonymous account with an empty password, but I am unable to access it.

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.infodrom.org:/var/cvs/$repository login

Logging in to :pserver:anonymous@cvs.infodrom.org:2401/var/cvs/config

CVS password: 

cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from cvs.infodrom.org: /usr/bin/cvs: unrecognized option '--allow_root=/var/cvs/debian'

How can I access cvs repository with an anonymous user?

SST
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  • (I haven't heard back, did you get this to work? Was my post helpful?) – Mort Jul 26 '19 at 14:41
  • No, Its not working.. Mort.. – SST Jul 31 '19 at 11:31
  • @Mort, Is there any steps to configure server-side and client-side to access cvs repository? – SST Jul 31 '19 at 11:42
  • By server side I mean you need access to the server's filesystem. If you're converting a repo to git, presumably you're an admin of the cvs repo already so it's not an issue. If you don't have that, maybe you can get the admin to tar up the whole repo for you. – Mort Aug 01 '19 at 17:59

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Two points:

  1. Try using infodrom rather than config as a $repository value as that's what's documented here: http://www.infodrom.org/projects/cfingerd/cvs.php and in similar projects i.e.

    cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.infodrom.org:/var/cvs/infodrom login

  2. You normally need the whole server-side repo to do a proper cvs2git, not just a client-side checkout. Which you cannot get from a repo on the web, you can only get if you are the sysadmin on your own cvs repo.

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  • Mort, [1] I am getting the same error when I use infodrom instead of $repository [2] I am not sure that I have configured properly. Is there any documentation for configuration to access cvs repo as anonymous? – SST Aug 01 '19 at 05:01
  • It could also be that infodrom cvs is somehow mis-configured. – Mort Aug 01 '19 at 17:56