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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: git-cvsserver commit trouble BUG+Work-around
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 13:56:00 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Jan Wielemaker wrote:

> Indeed, the trouble is here: git-cvsserver, near line 1203:
> 
>     my $parenthash = `git show-ref -s refs/heads/$state->{module}`;
> 
> $state->{module} is -of course- HEAD. git show-ref -s refs/heads/HEAD 
> indeed gives no output. git show-ref -s refs/heads/master works just 
> fine.

Ah!  Did you do "CVSROOT=:ext:blablub cvs co HEAD"?

You should "co master".  The branches in git are the modules in cvs.

HEAD is too volatile, you cannot make a proper module from it (imagine for 
example "git checkout next" where "next" is a branch, followed by "git 
checkout html", where "html" is another branch).

Ciao,
Dscho