git cvsimport with AuthReply: I Hate you error. Used cvs login but still fail

Question

I tried to use git cvsimport with

git cvsimport -v -d :pserver:kuongkwan@PSLIS:/slis -r cvs -k SLIS

I tried the solution

cvs -d :pserver:kuongkwan@PSLIS:/slis login 

already which has been posted before in stackoverflow by the others, but it fails.

It throws AuthReply: I HATE YOU error. I'm running in Windows 10. Any one know what's the problem? Thanks.

Answer 1

If even the cvs login step (cvs -d :pserver:kuongkwan@PSLIS:/slis login) fails, with a "I HATE YOU" error, that might means:

• you don't have access to the CVS repository
• you have the wrong password
• your password includes special characters that might need to be percent-encoded

If the login succeeds, but the import fails, then, as in this thread, you might need to clone the CVS repository first with cvsclone.