thanks for picking up my rant in such a constructive manner :)


<p>A quick googling showed me <a href="http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html">this tool</a>, cvs2git, whose “Development status” section really sounds promising:


</p><p>~~~~</p><p><b>Development status</b></p>

<p>Most of the work of converting a repository from CVS to a more
modern version control system is inferring the most likely history
given the incomplete information that CVS records.  cvs2svn has a long
history of making sense of even the most convoluted CVS repositories,
and cvs2git uses this same machinery.  Therefore, cvs2git inherits the
robustness and many of the <a href="http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/features.html">features of
cvs2svn</a>.  cvs2svn can convert just about every CVS repository we
have ever seen, and includes a plethora of options for customizing
your conversion.</p>

<p>The output of cvs2git is one or more dump files that can be
imported into git using the excellent <a href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gitfast-import.html">git fast-import</a> tool.</p>

<p>Although cvs2git is considerably newer than cvs2svn, and much less
well tested, it is believed that cvs2git can (cautiously) be used for
production conversions.  If you use cvs2git, please let us know how it
worked for you!</p><p>~~~~</p><p>I hope this means that PGF/TikZ becomes hosted on Github – I think the team there does a great job and the concept of “pull requests” really fits any open source project, no matter how hard the criteria for patches are.</p>
<p>hopefully,</p><p>philipp<br></p>