FreeType CVS to GIT experiment

I recently tried to migrate the FreeType CVS server to Git as an experiment. I wanted to see how easy it was to setup, on a single machine the following:

• a git repository hosting a copy of the official CVS FreeType repository. Preferably with gitosis for ease of setup and administration.
  
  
• a git server able to handle the git:// transport directly.
  
  
• a gitweb interface to present a nice web-based interface to the repository, as well as allow for the http:// transport when accessing the git sources.
  

It turned out in the end to be much more challenging that I initially though but the end result is now available here: http://git.freetype.org

WARNING: since this is an experiment, this is not a real-time copy of the official CVS repository and probably lags behind it by a few commits.

In the hope that some of my musings might be useful to other enthusiastic developers, I'm going to publish on this blog the steps that were required to get there, with pitfalls and all. Stay connected for the details...