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From: "Thomas Hühn" <newsgroups@thomas-huehn.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git cvsimport fails
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 17:54:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87abwomtdl.fsf@mid.thomas-huehn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ejm0mtpy.fsf@mid.thomas-huehn.de

Thomas Hühn <newsgroups@thomas-huehn.de> writes:

> I'm trying to import from a CVS repository and get this error message at
> the end:
>
> |Commit ID 076fd7d71925bb551320aa20aa8eec68bf218f45
> |DONE.
> |fatal: Needed a single revision
> |Can merge only exactly one commit into empty head
> |Could not merge origin into the current branch.
>
> Is my git repo broken, is the CVS repo broken, is it just a shortcoming
> of cvsimport? Any idea whether it is fixable?

Okay, should have looked further for suitable git commands. git-fsck
tells me that HEAD is not a symbolic ref.

HEAD contains "ref: refs/heads/master", but refs/heads contains no
"master", just other files.

Can I find out, which hash master should point at?

Thomas

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-01 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-01 15:47 git cvsimport fails Thomas Hühn
2007-05-01 15:54 ` Thomas Hühn [this message]
2007-05-06  6:41   ` Florian Weimer
2007-05-06  7:04     ` Thomas Hühn

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