From: Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 16:17:45 GMT
Subject: Re: gitweb wishlist
Message-ID: <20050524161745.GA9537@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505240110580.2307@ppc970.osdl.org>

Hello Linus,
I tried cvs2git and have the following problem:

	---------------------
	PatchSet 26
	Date: 1998/06/20 03:53:44
	Author: roessler
	Branch: mutt-0-93
	Ancestor branch: HEAD
	Tag: (none)
	Log:
	documenting alias-path

	Members:
		doc/manual.sgml:1.2->1.2.2.1

	---------------------

And your script does that:

	export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME=roessler
	export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=roessler
	export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=roessler
	export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=roessler
	export GIT_AUTHOR_DATE='1998/06/20 03:53:44'
	ln -sf refs/heads/'master' .git/HEAD
	git-read-tree -m HEAD
	git-checkout-cache -f -u -a
	mkdir -p doc
	co -p -r1.2.2.1 '/home/cip/adm/sithglan/work/mutt/cvsrepository/doc/Attic/manual.sgml,v' > 'doc/manual.sgml'
	git-update-cache --add -- 'doc/manual.sgml'
	tree=$(git-write-tree)
	cat > .cmitmsg <<EOFMSG
	documenting alias-path
	EOFMSG
	commit=$(cat .cmitmsg | git-commit-tree $tree -p HEAD)
	echo $commit > .git/HEAD

The problem might be that this is the first commit in the branch. But I thought
it should end up in refs/heads/mutt-0-93. The problem is that this ends
up a empty file and next time the script is working on it, it fails
because the branch is empty:

	+ export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME=roessler
	+ GIT_COMMITTER_NAME=roessler
	+ export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=roessler
	+ GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL=roessler
	+ export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=roessler
	+ GIT_AUTHOR_NAME=roessler
	+ export GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=roessler
	+ GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL=roessler
	+ export 'GIT_AUTHOR_DATE=1998/06/20 07:12:32'
	+ GIT_AUTHOR_DATE=1998/06/20 07:12:32
	+ ln -sf refs/heads/mutt-0-93 .git/HEAD
	+ git-read-tree -m HEAD
	usage: git-read-tree (<sha> | -m <sha1> [<sha2> <sha3>])
	+ git-checkout-cache -f -u -a
	+ co -p -r1.1.1.1.2.2 /home/cip/adm/sithglan/work/mutt/cvsrepository/handler.c,v
	/home/cip/adm/sithglan/work/mutt/cvsrepository/handler.c,v  -->  standard output
	revision 1.1.1.1.2.2
	+ git-update-cache --add -- handler.c
	++ git-write-tree
	+ tree=9e4d085838e4e62a8c4236a6713a7dd8d7b07b4e
	+ cat
	++ cat .cmitmsg
	++ git-commit-tree 9e4d085838e4e62a8c4236a6713a7dd8d7b07b4e -p HEAD
	usage: git-commit-tree <sha1> [-p <sha1>]* < changelog
	+ commit=
	+ echo

	Thomas