The detailed description can be found on the Icinga Wiki here.
$ mkdir cvs && cd cvs
$ rsync -av rsync://nagios-snmp.cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/nagios-snmp .
$ svn export --username=guest http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/svn/cvs2svn/trunk cvs2svn-trunk
$ cp cvs2svn-trunk/cvs2git-example.options cvs2git.options
$ vim cvs2git.options
author_transforms={
'patrickproy' : ('Patrick Proy', 'patrick@proy.org'),
# This one will be used for commits for which CVS doesn't record
# the original author, as explained above.
'cvs2svn' : 'cvs2svn ',
}
run_options.set_project(
# The filesystem path to the part of the CVS repository (*not* a
# CVS working copy) that should be converted. This may be a
# subdirectory (i.e., a module) within a larger CVS repository.
r'nagios-snmp',
$ cvs2svn-trunk/cvs2git --options=cvs2git.options --fallback-encoding utf-8
$ mkdir manubulon-snmp ; cd manubulon-snmp
$ git init
$ cat ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-{blob,dump}.dat | git fast-import
$ git reset --hard
On github, add a new repository and add that as origin.
$ git remote add origin git@github.com:dnsmichi/manubulon-snmp.git $ git push -u origin master
Voilà – https://github.com/dnsmichi/manubulon-snmp