Re: Errors GITtifying GCC and Binutils

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

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On Thu, 2006-03-23 19:39:44 -0500, Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker@cox.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:03:06PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-03-22 17:28:23 -0800, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
> > It seems there's a patch like
> > http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0602/16278.html is missing?
> > ...or we need a better cvsps.  Shall I add it and try again / try to
> > continue, or give up on it for now?  Though it would be nice to have
> > these two large and important source trees under GIT control :-)
> 
> You make want to try the cvsps patch I attached to the email here:
> 
> http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0511/11812.html

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cvs rlog: Logging src/winsup/w32api/include/ddk
cvs rlog: Logging src/winsup/w32api/include/directx
cvs rlog: Logging src/winsup/w32api/lib
cvs rlog: Logging src/winsup/w32api/lib/ddk
cvs rlog: Logging src/winsup/w32api/lib/directx
invalid initial_branch for file bfd/po/BLD-POTFILES.in, probably from old cache, run with -x.
DONE; creating master branch
fatal: refs/heads/origin: not a valid SHA1
fatal: master: not a valid SHA1
fatal: 'HEAD': No such file or directory
usage: git-read-tree (<sha> | -m [--aggressive] [-u | -i] <sha1> [<sha2> [<sha3>]])
checkout failed: 256


So it fails pretty early this time :)

MfG, JBG

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