How can you get the CVS repo of MMIX to CVS/Git?
I know how to clone a repo at github by git clone URL, but I have never really used sourceforge before. They use CVS which is new to me.
My unsuccessful attempt
git cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@mmixmasters.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/mmixmasters
I get the following tip at CVS -irc in trying to download the repo by CVS first
cvs -d /tmp/ add co -PA mixmasters
However, it is not working for me as expected.
It's not clear what you expected that to do. git is not magic that drives CVS, it's an entirely different thing altogether.
git does have a cvsimport tool that will make a git repository out of a CVS repository, but do note that this will be an entirely different thing.
An example import:
mkdir mmixmasters
cd mmixmasters
git cvsimport -d:pserver:anonymous@mmixmasters.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/mmixmasters mmixmasters
I'd recommend you understand both git and cvs better before trying to work with one gating the other, though.