From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: git-cvsimport bug Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:57:46 -0500 Message-ID: <20071128165746.GC20308@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <20071127150136.GA50697@orion.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Emanuele Giaquinta X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Nov 28 17:58:30 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IxQEk-0007pj-9F for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:58:10 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758934AbXK1Q5u (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:57:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758869AbXK1Q5u (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:57:50 -0500 Received: from 66-23-211-5.clients.speedfactory.net ([66.23.211.5]:2898 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755171AbXK1Q5t (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:57:49 -0500 Received: (qmail 12088 invoked by uid 111); 28 Nov 2007 16:57:48 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with SMTP; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:57:48 -0500 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:57:46 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071127150136.GA50697@orion.lan> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 04:01:36PM +0100, Emanuele Giaquinta wrote: > a call to git-cvsimport after a 'git-pack-refs --all' seems to mess up > the origin branch, because the first new change is committed with no > parent (git-cvsimport reports 'Parent ID (empty)'). > It does not happen if I disable loose refs pruning with --no-prune. A > tiny test repo you can use to reproduce the problem is > mextli.tomaw.net/~exg/lzf.tar. Is it expected? Some of git-cvsimport is quite old, and it accesses the ref files directly. It should be fairly easy to fix; I will post a patch in a few minutes. -Peff