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 practise:
+more stable in practice:
* cvs2git (part of cvs2svn), `http://cvs2svn.tigris.org`
* parsecvs, `http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~keithp/parsecvs`