{"thread":{"id":"1429","subject":"git-cvs-import-script problems","startedAt":"2005-08-05T10:14:27Z","lastAt":"2005-08-05T14:46:51Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["David Kågedal"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"6848","messageId":"u5tfytoitbw.fsf@fidgit.hq.vtech","threadId":"1429","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"git-cvs-import-script problems","fromName":"David Kågedal","fromEmail":"davidk@lysator.liu.se","sentAt":"2005-08-05T10:14:27Z","receivedAt":"2005-08-05T10:14:27Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"davidk@lysator.liu.se","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/60530?v=4"},"body":"I just tried importing a large CVS repository to git, using \"git\ncvsimport\".  It managed to import a lot of files and revisions, but\nhalf-way through, it stopped with this message:\n\n  Unknown: F\n\nAs far as I can till, this \"F\" probably came from the CVS server\nprocess.  Could it be that my CVS is too new or too old?\n\nI'm using git b03e2d2091153d239063cfc086a840d74a9eadde,  cvs 1.11.20,\ncvsps 2.1, and the CVS repository is a local directory.\n\nAlso, when the process stops, I have .git/HEAD pointing to\nrefs/heads/master (which doesn't exist).  I thought it would be\npointing to refs/heads/origin.\n\n-- \nDavid Kågedal\n"},{"id":"6852","messageId":"u5tslxoh25g.fsf@fidgit.hq.vtech","threadId":"1429","inReplyTo":"u5tfytoitbw.fsf@fidgit.hq.vtech","subject":"Re: git-cvs-import-script problems","fromName":"David Kågedal","fromEmail":"davidk@lysator.liu.se","sentAt":"2005-08-05T14:46:51Z","receivedAt":"2005-08-05T14:46:51Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"davidk@lysator.liu.se","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/60530?v=4"},"body":"David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se> writes:\n\n> I just tried importing a large CVS repository to git, using \"git\n> cvsimport\".  It managed to import a lot of files and revisions, but\n> half-way through, it stopped with this message:\n>\n>   Unknown: F\n>\n> As far as I can till, this \"F\" probably came from the CVS server\n> process.  Could it be that my CVS is too new or too old?\n\nUpgrading to CVS 1.12.1 seems to have helped.\n\n-- \nDavid Kågedal\n"}]}