From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Subject: Re: cvsimport: trying to convert freebsd cvs to git
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:29:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071223172913.GA9297@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071222171801.GE15286@genesis.frugalware.org>
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 06:18:01PM +0100, Miklos Vajna wrote:
> then i tried:
>
> $ time git cvsimport -d `pwd`/cvs -C src.git src
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/vmiklos/git/freebsd/src.git/.git/
> malformed revision
This is the actual error; everything else is git-cvsimport failing to
notice the problem and continuing anyway.
I will take a look and see if it is simple to stop the process here and
produce a better error message.
> 1) does cvsimport supports the case when the source if on the local
> filesystem, and not in not on a cvs server?
Yes, it should work fine (it will still call cvsps and CVS, so it should
look the same to git-cvsimport).
> 2) if it supports, then i think the real error message is 'malformed
> revision'. what is the proper way to see where is that revision?
Try git-cvsimport -v.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-23 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-22 17:18 cvsimport: trying to convert freebsd cvs to git Miklos Vajna
2007-12-23 1:47 ` Anand Kumria
2007-12-23 12:06 ` David Soria Parra
2007-12-23 17:29 ` Jeff King [this message]
2007-12-23 21:13 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-12-24 3:05 ` Jeff King
2007-12-24 3:08 ` [PATCH] cvsimport: die on cvsps errors Jeff King
2007-12-24 3:21 ` Martin Langhoff
2007-12-24 12:43 ` Miklos Vajna
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