From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rajkumar S" Subject: cvsimport fails with cvsps core dump Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:44:28 +0530 Message-ID: <64de5c8b0609120914p4ea47860x60a294093d43bc24@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 12 18:15:12 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNAuB-0001oy-Kh for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:14:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030267AbWILQOc (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:14:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030268AbWILQOc (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:14:32 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.225]:12349 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030267AbWILQOb (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:14:31 -0400 Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i32so527327wra for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:14:30 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; b=Js6io2WXsEcnGR+E4o08XBKfydiBVJH6k1pjC2MqeFc7Ai8tZKA0b7SCjdiVPXpBnDlardxn7XN4WVuthWzkC24SCEgLwsZDnApADb3DEOHpBVivKMRxmXMhPbRZ6QHmNb3srfWKLJleRoSfe2gyhVd6jWY1hdtn26m7gwxqDPU= Received: by 10.90.113.20 with SMTP id l20mr2237607agc; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:14:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.248.1 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:14:28 -0700 (PDT) To: git@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: b85904e0476e44a0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, While trying to cvsimport pfsense [1] source [2], cvsps coredumps and cvsimport aborts with the following error. root@beastie:# git cvsimport -v -d /usr/local/pfSense/tmp/cvsroot -C pfSense/ pfSense Running cvsps... cvs_direct initialized to CVSROOT /usr/local/pfSense/tmp/cvsroot cvs rlog: Logging pfSense cvs rlog: Logging pfSense/bin cvs rlog: Logging pfSense/boot cvs rlog: Logging pfSense/boot/kernel cvs rlog: Logging pfSense/cf cvs rlog: Logging pfSense/cf/conf cvs rlog: Logging pfSense/conf.default cvs rlog: Logging pfSense/etc cvs rlog: Logging pfSense/etc/ascii-art cvs rlog: Logging pfSense/etc/inc DONE; creating master branch fatal: refs/heads/origin: not a valid SHA1 fatal: master: not a valid SHA1 fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD': unknown revision or path not in the working tree. Use '--' to separate paths from revisions fatal: Not a valid object name HEAD checkout failed: 256 root@beastie:# ls pfSense/ .git cvsps.core I am trying this in FreeBSD 6.1 with cvsps compiled from master branch of git repository at http://ydirson.free.fr/soft/git/cvsps.git To replicate this error get the pfSense cvsroot tarball from [2] and run the command $ git cvsimport -v -d //cvsroot -C pfSense/ pfSense While this is not a git bug as such, I have written to the cvsps author about this about one week back with no replies and this seems to be the only place interested in cvsps. Thanks and regards, raj 1 http://www.pfsense.com 2 http://www.pfsense.com/cvs.tgz