Point at which CVS was made read-only. May be useful if you have diffs in an old CVS checkout from cvs.sv.gnu.org:/sources/coreutils, and want to import them into a git checkout. Try the following to import those diffs into git: git checkout -b from-cvs cvs-readonly cp -R path/to/old-cvs-tree/coreutils/* . git commit -a -m 'state of old-cvs-tree' git rebase master