CVS to GIT migration

Steps to migrate METViewer from CVS to GITHub

1.Download and install cvs2git package : cvs2git 2.Get direct (filesystem) read-only access to a copy of the CVS repository 3.Create directory for blob and dump files and <temp_dir> for temp files
4.Use cvs2git command to create blob and dump files: python cvs2git
--force-tag=mv_* --use-rcs --tmpdir=<temp_dir>
--blobfile=/git-blob.dat --dumpfile=/git-dump.dat
--username=<cvs_user_name> <path_to_CVS_root>/apps/verif/metviewer 5.Initialize a git repository: mkdir METViewer cd METViewer git init 6.Load the dump files into the new git repository using git fast-import cat /cvs2svn-tmp/git-blob.dat /cvs2svn-tmp/git-dump.dat | git fast-import 7.Run the contrib/git-move-refs.py script from within the git repository. 8.Explicitly check out the "master" version of the files into your working tree: git checkout 9.Add origin git remote add origin https://github.com/NCAR/METViewer.git 10. Push the source tree into GitHub including tags: git push --tags -u origin master