Merge branch 'bw/get-tz-offset-perl' into maint

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-cvsimport.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
index 98d9881d7e891e4728c09f6536c3506b3688d145..f059ea94daf72dc66c9e04455b4fdbb235875c52 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ SYNOPSIS
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
+*WARNING:* `git cvsimport` uses cvsps version 2, which is considered
+deprecated; it does not work with cvsps version 3 and later.  If you are
+performing a one-shot import of a CVS repository consider using
+link:http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html[cvs2git] or
+link:https://github.com/BartMassey/parsecvs[parsecvs].
+
 Imports a CVS repository into git. It will either create a new
 repository, or incrementally import into an existing one.
 
@@ -213,11 +219,9 @@ Problems related to tags:
 * Multiple tags on the same revision are not imported.
 
 If you suspect that any of these issues may apply to the repository you
-want to import consider using these alternative tools which proved to be
-more stable in practice:
+want to imort, consider using cvs2git:
 
-* cvs2git (part of cvs2svn), `http://cvs2svn.tigris.org`
-* parsecvs, `http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~keithp/parsecvs`
+* cvs2git (part of cvs2svn), `http://subversion.apache.org/`
 
 GIT
 ---