Re: [PATCH] symref support for import scripts

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> writes:

> Fix git import script not to assume that .git/HEAD is a symlink.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>

Thanks.

Martin and Matthias, are these OK with you two?  All of the
changes look trivially correct, so I'll take them.

> diff --git a/git-cvsimport.perl b/git-cvsimport.perl
> index 7bd9136..efe1934 100755
> --- a/git-cvsimport.perl
> +++ b/git-cvsimport.perl
> @@ -437,7 +437,11 @@ unless(-d $git_dir) {
>  		       "Either use the correct '-o branch' option,\n".
>  		       "or import to a new repository.\n";
>  
> -	$last_branch = basename(readlink("$git_dir/HEAD"));
> +	open(F, "git-symbolic-ref HEAD |") or
> +		die "Cannot run git-symbolic-ref: $!\n";
> +	chomp ($last_branch = <F>);
> +	$last_branch = basename($last_branch);
> +	close(F);
>  	unless($last_branch) {
>  		warn "Cannot read the last branch name: $! -- assuming 'master'\n";
>  		$last_branch = "master";

This part, before or after Pavel's fixes, seems to refuse a
branch named 'topic/#1'.  This is not a problem for import
scripts that name their own branches based on what is in the
foreign SCM and flatten their the branch namespaces, but I'd
prefer a comment about the issue somewhere around this code, to
prevent people from copying and pasting the use of "basename()".
There is a corresponding piece in svnimport as well.