Re: git-svnimport: what to do after -i?

[Steven Walter <stevenrwalter@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:33:25AM -0400, Jing Xue wrote:
> 
> I am new to git. Last night I used "git svnimport -i" to import a svn  
> project. It finished successfully. The only problem now is I can't  
> seem to be able to checkout a working copy. In other words, I have a  
> 'projectFoo' directory, with only .git in it, but not any actual  
> working files. "git-branch" shows two branches, master and origin.  
> "git-checkout master" returns successfully, but does nothing.
> 
> I guess that's because I used -i without fully understanding what it  
> implies. Is there any way to checkout a working directory?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any ideas.
> -- 
> Jing Xue

See if "git reset --hard master" doesn't check out the files for you.  I
seem to recall an issue where, after an import, no files were checked
out.  reset fixed it for me.
-- 
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