svn2git fails "ERROR: No RCS files found under..." about cvs2svn HOT 3 CLOSED

You need to run cvs2git against the CVS repository, not a checked-out copy. The repository is the thing with a CVSROOT directory at its top level and lots of filename.txt,v files with the ,v suffix.

Last I checked, sourceforge provides some way to download a tarball of your repository.

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well the point is to get the commit history, not just a snapshot.
and the above stackoverflow article suggests that it is possible to use cv2git like that.
i.e. point cvs2git to a CVS repository (although not a local one, but. a read-only external one like in the above case) and let it checkout commit after commit and create a new git repo out of that.

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@rofl0r: You are right; the stack overflow instructions are wrong. I just downvoted that answer and added a comment explaining why it is wrong.

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