From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: cvsimport: trying to convert freebsd cvs to git Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:29:13 -0500 Message-ID: <20071223172913.GA9297@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: <20071222171801.GE15286@genesis.frugalware.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Sperling To: Miklos Vajna X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Dec 23 18:29:45 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 1J6Udw-0006zQ-F0 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 18:29:40 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753226AbXLWR3R (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:29:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752852AbXLWR3R (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:29:17 -0500 Received: from 66-23-211-5.clients.speedfactory.net ([66.23.211.5]:4956 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752839AbXLWR3Q (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:29:16 -0500 Received: (qmail 17028 invoked by uid 111); 23 Dec 2007 17:29:14 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:29:14 -0500 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:29:13 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071222171801.GE15286@genesis.frugalware.org> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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