Using git for handling drupal contrib CVS
Using git for handling CVS checkouts for drupal contrib
Details are on Maintaining a Drupal module using Git
For Mac OSX users you will need cvsps (fink install cvsps for example).
Useful alias for your .gitconfig:
drupalcontribcvs = !sh -c 'git cvsimport -p x -v -d:pserver:[email protected]:/cvs/drupal-contrib contributions/modules/$0'
This allows you to call
git drupalcontribcvs <modulename>