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Re: Importing from CVS issues

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ABAlex Bennee <alexjb@transitive.com>
Date
Aug 16, 2005, 13:48 UTC
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On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 14:16 +0200, David Kågedal wrote:
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> Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com> writes:
> 
> > Before the import script finally dies with:
> >
> > WARNING: revision 1.3.2.1 of file
> > scripts/xmltools/t/data/gzip/DO-NOT-BACKUP on unnamed branch
> > DONE; creating master branch
> > cp: cannot stat `/export/test/cvstogit/.git/refs/heads/origin': No such
> > file or directory
> 
> Was this done with an empty destination dir?  I've seen similar things
> happen in a dir where an interrupted cvs import was done previously,
> and the 'origin' branch was never created.

Yes, in fact I let the script create the new destination dir. So I don't think its an issue with stale data from a previous attempt being left around.

> 

-- Alex Bennee - alexjb@transitive.com "The world is beating a path to our door" -- Bruce Perens, (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)

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