From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Haggerty Subject: Re: problem with git cvsimport Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:37:06 +0200 Message-ID: <46DA5A12.2090506@alum.mit.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_Veillette?= X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Sep 02 08:37:26 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IRj5E-0007ZO-IS for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:37:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753133AbXIBGhQ convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 02:37:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752842AbXIBGhQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 02:37:16 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:53038 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751467AbXIBGhO (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 02:37:14 -0400 X-Envelope-From: mhagger@alum.mit.edu Received: from [192.168.69.131] (kaiserty.in-dsl.de [217.197.85.174]) (authenticated bits=0) by einhorn.in-berlin.de (8.13.6/8.13.6/Debian-1) with ESMTP id l826b8gh000895 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 08:37:08 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.13) Gecko/20070824 Thunderbird/1.5.0.13 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang_at_IN-Berlin_e.V. on 192.109.42.8 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jean-Fran=E7ois Veillette wrote: > I can't get git-cvsimport to convert a cvs project to git (full log > bellow). > I always get : > fatal: Not a valid object name refs/heads/HEAD > read-tree failed: 32768 >=20 > I'm a relatively new to git. I would like to convert my project and > track external projects with git. > But cvsimport seem to fail. Any pointer to help me resolve the issue= is > welcome ! I suggest you try the experimental support in cvs2svn for converting to git. cvs2svn is very good about understanding strange CVS histories. See the following thread for more information: http://marc.info/?l=3Dgit&m=3D118592701426175&w=3D4 Michael