Getting MMIX repo for CVS/Git

Question

How can you get the CVS repo of MMIX to CVS/Git?

I know how to clone a repo at github by git clone URL, but I have never really used sourceforge before. They use CVS which is new to me.

My unsuccessful attempt

git cvs -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/mmixmasters

I get the following tip at CVS -irc in trying to download the repo by CVS first

cvs -d /tmp/ add co -PA mixmasters

However, it is not working for me as expected.

Answer 1

It's not clear what you expected that to do. git is not magic that drives CVS, it's an entirely different thing altogether.

git does have a cvsimport tool that will make a git repository out of a CVS repository, but do note that this will be an entirely different thing.

An example import:

mkdir mmixmasters
cd mmixmasters
git cvsimport -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvsroot/mmixmasters mmixmasters

I'd recommend you understand both git and cvs better before trying to work with one gating the other, though.