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[PATCH] cvsimport: Remove master-updating code

From
smurf@smurf.noris.de <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date
Mar 7, 2006, 09:08 UTC
Message-ID
<20060307090834.GX13888@smurf.noris.de>
In-Reply-To
<7vek1e6cnk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

The code which tried to update the master branch was somewhat broken. => People should do that manually, with "git merge".

Signed-off-by: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
---
Junio C Hamano:
> I do not understand what cvsimport is trying to do here; I
> _suspect_ the part that updates the "master" branch head might
> be a bug.
> 
This should fix it.
---
 Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt |    6 ++++++
 git-cvsimport.perl              |   27 ++-------------------------
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
4c28ef8000d68a0736084022a047019dca96c823
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
index dfe86ce..57027b4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cvsimport.txt
@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ repository, or incrementally import into
 Splitting the CVS log into patch sets is done by 'cvsps'.
 At least version 2.1 is required.
 
+You should *never* do any work of your own on the branches that are
+created by git-cvsimport. The initial import will create and populate a
+"master" branch from the CVS repository's main branch which you're free
+to work with; after that, you need to 'git merge' incremental imports, or
+any CVS branches, yourself.
+
 OPTIONS
 -------
 -d <CVSROOT>::
diff --git a/git-cvsimport.perl b/git-cvsimport.perl
index b46469a..02d1928 100755
--- a/git-cvsimport.perl
+++ b/git-cvsimport.perl
@@ -452,7 +452,6 @@ chdir($git_tree);
 
 my $last_branch = "";
 my $orig_branch = "";
-my $forward_master = 0;
 my %branch_date;
 
 my $git_dir = $ENV{"GIT_DIR"} || ".git";
@@ -488,21 +487,6 @@ unless(-d $git_dir) {
 		$last_branch = "master";
 	}
 	$orig_branch = $last_branch;
-	if (-f "$git_dir/CVS2GIT_HEAD") {
-		die <<EOM;
-CVS2GIT_HEAD exists.
-Make sure your working directory corresponds to HEAD and remove CVS2GIT_HEAD.
-You may need to run
-
-    git read-tree -m -u CVS2GIT_HEAD HEAD
-EOM
-	}
-	system('cp', "$git_dir/HEAD", "$git_dir/CVS2GIT_HEAD");
-
-	$forward_master =
-	    $opt_o ne 'master' && -f "$git_dir/refs/heads/master" &&
-	    system('cmp', '-s', "$git_dir/refs/heads/master", 
-				"$git_dir/refs/heads/$opt_o") == 0;
 
 	# populate index
 	system('git-read-tree', $last_branch);
@@ -889,17 +873,11 @@ if (defined $orig_git_index) {
 
 # Now switch back to the branch we were in before all of this happened
 if($orig_branch) {
-	print "DONE\n" if $opt_v;
-	system("cp","$git_dir/refs/heads/$opt_o","$git_dir/refs/heads/master")
-		if $forward_master;
-	unless ($opt_i) {
-		system('git-read-tree', '-m', '-u', 'CVS2GIT_HEAD', 'HEAD');
-		die "read-tree failed: $?\n" if $?;
-	}
+	print "DONE; you may need to merge manually.\n" if $opt_v;
 } else {
 	$orig_branch = "master";
 	print "DONE; creating $orig_branch branch\n" if $opt_v;
-	system("cp","$git_dir/refs/heads/$opt_o","$git_dir/refs/heads/master")
+	system("git-update-ref", "refs/heads/master", "refs/heads/$opt_o")
 		unless -f "$git_dir/refs/heads/master";
 	system('git-update-ref', 'HEAD', "$orig_branch");
 	unless ($opt_i) {
@@ -907,4 +885,3 @@ if($orig_branch) {
 		die "checkout failed: $?\n" if $?;
 	}
 }
-unlink("$git_dir/CVS2GIT_HEAD");
-- 
1.2.GIT


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