problems with importing from cvs archive

problems with importing from cvs archive

[Ed S. Peschko]

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

 

Re: problems with importing from cvs archive

[Jakub Narebski]

"Ed S. Peschko" <esp5@pge.com> writes:

> 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

[...]

> Or is this just a plain vanilla bug? 

I guess that you might have been bitten by (just corrected, but not in
any released version yet) the bug in git-cvsimport (which is quite
old, and not very well maintained) when branches are packed.

You can either try last patch to cvsimport (it is in 'master'),
or unpack refs using "git reset --soft HEAD" when on given packed
branch,

-- 
Jakub Narebski

Re: problems with importing from cvs archive

[Jean-François Veillette]

Le 07-12-02 à 01:46, Ed S. Peschko a écrit :

> All,
>
> I'm trying to use git-cvsimport to import from a CVS archive, using:
>
> git-cvsimport -d $CVSROOT

I was able to go further just by adding the verbose mode ( -v ) :
git cvsimport -v -d ...

give it a try,

- jfv

Re: problems with importing from cvs archive

[Jeff King]

On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 10:14:07AM -0500, Jean-François Veillette wrote:

> Le 07-12-02 à 01:46, Ed S. Peschko a écrit :
>
>> All,
>>
>> I'm trying to use git-cvsimport to import from a CVS archive, using:
>>
>> git-cvsimport -d $CVSROOT
>
> I was able to go further just by adding the verbose mode ( -v ) :
> git cvsimport -v -d ...

There were some serious problems with the argument parsing of
git-cvsimport with respect to finding the correct module from the git
config or from your CVS working directory. This should all be fixed in
v1.5.3.7; please let me know if you still have a problem with that
version.

-Peff