From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Ed S. Peschko" Subject: problems with importing from cvs archive Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 22:46:13 -0800 Message-ID: <20071202064613.GB25351@venus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Dec 02 08:40:35 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 1IyjRJ-00038m-6H for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2007 08:40:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751561AbXLBHbK (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2007 02:31:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751462AbXLBHbJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2007 02:31:09 -0500 Received: from mta06.pge.com ([131.90.0.76]:57302 "EHLO mta06.pge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751561AbXLBHbJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Dec 2007 02:31:09 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 2693 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:31:08 EST Received: from mta11.comp.pge.com (mta11.comp.pge.com [10.245.211.126]) by mta06.pge.com (Switch-3.3.0/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id lB26kDVg024692 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2007 22:46:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from mdssdr01.utility.pge.com (mdssdr01.utility.pge.com [10.244.52.48]) by mta11.comp.pge.com (Switch-3.3.0/Switch-3.3.0) with ESMTP id lB26kCR6022805 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2007 22:46:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from esp5@localhost) by mdssdr01.utility.pge.com (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.7) id lB26kDT05619 for git@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 1 Dec 2007 22:46:13 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: mdssdr01.utility.pge.com: esp5 set sender to esp5@pge.com using -f Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: All, I'm trying to use git-cvsimport to import from a CVS archive, using: git-cvsimport -d $CVSROOT and am getting the following error: fatal: refs/heads/origin: not a valid SHA1 fatal: master: not a valid SHA1 warning: You appear to be on a branch yet to be born warning: Forcing checkout of HEAD fatal: just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees? checkout failed: 256 Is git-cvsimport meant to be universal - ie: work on any given CVS worktree - or do you need to prep the CVS worktree in any way in order for it to be used? Or is this just a plain vanilla bug? Thanks, Ed