From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kalle Valo Subject: Re: cvsimport error: need a valid pathname Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:44:33 +0300 Message-ID: <87zmr39svy.fsf@litku.valo.iki.fi> References: <874q9bcu6d.fsf@litku.valo.iki.fi> <46a038f905082708371719121c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 27 19:41:57 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E94gU-0005D2-8m for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 19:41:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751632AbVH0Rlf (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:41:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751634AbVH0Rlf (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:41:35 -0400 Received: from fep01-0.kolumbus.fi ([193.229.0.41]:8955 "EHLO fep01-app.kolumbus.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751631AbVH0Rlf (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Aug 2005 13:41:35 -0400 Received: from litku.valo.iki.fi ([81.197.35.21]) by fep01-app.kolumbus.fi with ESMTP id <20050827174131.HDDN23558.fep01-app.kolumbus.fi@litku.valo.iki.fi>; Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:41:31 +0300 To: Martin Langhoff In-Reply-To: <46a038f905082708371719121c@mail.gmail.com> (Martin Langhoff's message of "Sun, 28 Aug 2005 03:37:48 +1200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Martin Langhoff writes: > On 8/28/05, Kalle Valo wrote: >> The documentation says that it should be possible to update >> incrementally from the CVS repository. Am I doing something wrong or >> is this a bug? > > It _should_ work the way you are running it, so consider it a bug. Do > you think you can do some tinkering/debugging to tell us some more? I investigated it and realized that this was my mistake. I had copied the imported git repository from my laptop to my desktop using 'scp -r' and it changed .git/HEAD to a file, not a link as it should have been. I copied it again, this time with tar to preserve symbolic links, and cvsimport started to work again. So this was just a PEBCAK. Thanks for your help. > Otherwise. how large is the cvs repo? 'git log | grep commit | wc -l' says 2704 commits. I have to say that git has made my life a lot easier. It was really easy to import the CVS history to git and now I can read the history properly with gitk. With CVS I would have been banging my head to the wall all the time. Now all I want is svnimport and darcsimport :) -- Kalle Valo