Converting a project from CVS 

• The source CVS directory:

$ ls /var/cvs
CVSROOT/
myproj/

• The conversion command:

$ cvs2svn --fs-type=fsfs -s new_svn_dir /var/cvs/myproj

• Checking out the new project:

$ svn checkout file:///path/to/new_svn_dir myproj