cvs-fast-export | CVS history as a fast-import stream

cvs-fast-export is a C library. cvs-fast-export has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. However cvs-fast-export has a Non-SPDX License. You can download it from GitLab.

this program analyzes a collection of rcs files in a cvs repository (or outside of one) and, when possible, emits an equivalent history in the form of a fast-import stream. not all possible histories can be rendered this way; the program tries to emit useful warnings when it can’t. the program can also produce a visualization of the resulting commit dag in the dot format handled by the graphviz suite. this program could have been called rcs-fast-export with equal appropriateness; the cvs-fast-export name was chosen to avoid colliding with a pre-existing script with that name by giuseppe bilotta. the analysis stage of this code originally travelled as "parsecvs" and was written by keith packard in early 2006. it was briefly maintained by bart massey before passing to eric s. raymond in late 2012; esr wrote the fast-export output stage and renamed the program to reflect its new function. more historical details are in hacking.asc. the distribution includes a tool, cvssync, for fetching masters from cvs remote repositories so cvs-fast-export can see them. you will need rsync installed to use it. a wrapper script called cvsconvert runs a conversion to git and looks for content mismatches with the original cvs. also included is