Re: problem after cvsimport

[Bert Douglas <bertd@tplogic.com>]

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Bert Douglas <bertd@tplogic.com> writes:
>
>   
>> I am new to git, so probably doing something wrong.
>> Hope somebody can enlighten me.
>> Here is what happened so far.
>>
>> Followed instructions here:
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/cvs-migration.html
>>
>> Did command like this:
>>
>> $ git cvsimport -C <destination> <module>
>>
>> This was done from top level of existing cvs working directory.
>> Destination was new empty directory, outside the cvs tree.
>>
>> It worked for several hours and seemed to complete ok.
>> I can look at history in destination git directory with gitk and git log.
>> All the stuff in ".git" looks normal, as far as I can tell.
>>
>> But I have no files in the working directory.
>> When I do command:
>> $git checkout master
>>
>> I get a bunch of lines to console with "D" in front.
>> Btw, what does that mean?  Nothing about it in "man git-checkout" or elsewhere that I can find.
>> Then it says -- Already on branch "master"
>>
>> But working directory is still empty.
>>     
>
> Have you tried "git checkout -f" after that?  With recent enough
> git, "git cvsimport -C <destination> <module>" from the top
> level of existing cvs working directory, with nonexistent
> destination directory (that is, you let "git cvsimport -C" to
> create that destination directory) would run "git checkout -f"
> for you.
>   
Somehow I missed that option.
That worked.  Very fast.  Thanks.

Am I going to have to do "-f" a lot?
How will I know when to do it?
Why not do it all the time?