git-cvsserver commit trouble (unexpected end of file in client)

[Jan Wielemaker <wielemak@science.uva.nl>]

Hi,

I'm pretty new to GIT. I quickly convinced our project to move to GIT,
except for one guy that wants to do Windows and CVS :-( I setup a test
and the checkout works just fine, but commit from cvs doesn't work. The
details:

	* Server: git version 1.5.3.1 compiled on SuSE 10.2, 64-bits
	* Client, both SuSE CVS 1.12.12 and the current WinCVS cvs.exe,
	so it appears irrelevant.

I created a test repository from a papers directory using the sequence
beloe. (P.s. isn't there a more elegant way to get to a bare shared repo
from a set of files? I tried (mkdir papers.git && cd papers.git && git
--bare init --shared=all), but I can't clone an empty bare repository
(doesn't create anything), so I can't add to it).

	% cd ~/tmp/papers
	% git-init
	% git-add .
	% git-commit
	% cd /home/git
	% git-clone --bare --no-hardlinks ~/tmp/papers/ papers.git
	% cd papers.git
	% git-config core.sharedrepository all
	% chmod g+ws `find . -type d`
	% chmod g+w `find . -type f`

Anyway, appears to work fine with GIT to clone, pull and push.  Using
CVS over SSH, I can checkout this just fine, creating HEAD.  Now I change
a file and run "cvs commit" to get:

gollem (2006) 11_> cvs commit -m "test"
cvs [commit aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)

I enabled logging and added a few statements to git-cvsserver (line 1203)

    $log->info("Start git show-ref -s refs/heads/$state->{module}");
    # Remember where the head was at the beginning.
    my $parenthash = `git show-ref -s refs/heads/$state->{module}`;
    $log->info("parenthash = $parenthash");
    chomp $parenthash;
    if ($parenthash !~ /^[0-9a-f]{40}$/) {
            $log->warn("error 1 pserver cannot find the current HEAD of 
module");
            exit;
    }

Then I get this log output:

================================================================
2007-10-03 12:25:16 : DEBUG - Temporary directory is '/tmp/XwYVFFqjyd'
2007-10-03 12:25:16 : DEBUG - req_Root : /home/git/papers.git
2007-10-03 12:25:16 : DEBUG - req_Validresponses : ok error Valid-requests 
Referrer Redirect Checked-in New-entry Checksum Co
py-file Updated Created Update-existing Merged Patched Rcs-diff Mode Mod-time 
Removed Remove-entry Set-static-directory Clear
-static-directory Set-sticky Clear-sticky Edit-file Template Clear-template 
Notified Module-expansion Wrapper-rcsOption M Mbi
nary E F MT
2007-10-03 12:25:16 : DEBUG - req_validrequests
2007-10-03 12:25:16 : DEBUG - SEND : Valid-requests remove add status Entry 
watchers ci tag log co Modified Questionable admi
n Root history valid-requests Global_option Argumentx annotate Valid-responses 
Unchanged Directory rlog Argument expand-modul
es diff editors update
2007-10-03 12:25:16 : DEBUG - SEND : ok
2007-10-03 12:25:16 : DEBUG - req_Globaloption : -q
2007-10-03 12:25:16 : DEBUG - Argument : -m
2007-10-03 12:25:16 : DEBUG - Argument : test
2007-10-03 12:25:16 : DEBUG - Argument : --
2007-10-03 12:25:16 : INFO  - Setting prepend to '2006/'
2007-10-03 12:25:16 : DEBUG - Prepending '2006/' to state|directory
2007-10-03 12:25:16 : DEBUG - req_Directory : localdir=. 
repository=/home/git/papers.git/HEAD/2006 path=2006/ directory=2006/
 module=HEAD
2007-10-03 12:25:16 : INFO  - Received entry line '/README.txt/1.1///' 
=> '2006/README.txt'
2007-10-03 12:25:16 : DEBUG - Argument : README.txt
2007-10-03 12:25:16 : INFO  - req_ci : [NULL]
2007-10-03 12:25:16 : INFO  - Lockless commit start, basing commit 
on '/tmp/XwYVFFqjyd/ud4uGbbUJg', index file is '/tmp/XwYVF
Fqjyd/3FeXMladmb'
2007-10-03 12:25:16 : INFO  - Start git show-ref -s refs/heads/HEAD
2007-10-03 12:25:16 : INFO  - parenthash =
2007-10-03 12:25:16 : WARN  - error 1 pserver cannot find the current HEAD of 
module
================================================================

I don't like the req_ci : [NULL] very much, and the last 3 lines clearly shows 
a problem.  I checked
the latest git repository of git. There is no change to git-cvsserver.perl.

I'm still a bit too newbie to (and not much of a Perl programmer).  Does 
anyone has a clue?  Do I have
the wrong version for something?  Did I setup the repository wrongly?

	Thanks --- Jan