RE: Problems with git cvsimport

[Raimund Bauer <ray007@gmx.net>]

On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 01:30 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Raimund Bauer wrote:
> 
> > $ git cvsimport -d :pserver:ray007@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib -C
> > localizer -a contributions/modules/localizer
> > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/ray/drupal/modules/localizer/.git/
> > file 'CHANGELOG.txt; pre_rev:INITIAL; post_rev:1.1; dead:0; branch_point:0
> > ' not found in hash
> > fatal: refs/heads/origin: not a valid SHA1
> > fatal: master: not a valid SHA1
> 
> This looks to me as if you did not cleanup after failed attempts. I would 
> try this in a fresh directory. Actually, I did, and I think it worked, 

I always tried with a new directory, that's not the reason.

I've just tried it out on my home-box, which is a ubuntu edgy x86
installation, and git-cvsimport seems to work quite fine here.

On our server, which is a suse 9.3 amd64 installation (with the latest
suse updates for that version), I just can't get it to run. Currently I
wonder how I got _any_ git-cvsimport to work there. Still the same error
256 ...

How do I find out the minimum-version of tools I need to use
git-cvsimport? I already know about cvsps and did install a current
version there, but there seem to be some more dependencies ...
Or could it be a 64-bit issue somewhere?

'make test' says everything is fine.

If you can point me in the some direction on how to debug this, I'll
give it a try, currently I have no clue where to start.

> too... Latest commit is
> 
> commit 8fc1b3decbe961925e3d043f5e03b10e2093d72b
> Author: robertogerola <robertogerola>
> Date:   Tue Feb 13 13:22:53 2007 +0000

Yes, that looks good. Which means something on our server is the reason
for git-cvsimport not working.

Continuing  investigation ...

-- 
best regards

  Ray