Re: git-cvsserver commit trouble BUG+Work-around

From: Jan Wielemaker <wielemak@science.uva.nl>
Date: Oct 4, 2007, 13:06 UTC
Message-ID: <200710041506.13154.wielemak@science.uva.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710041352480.4174@racer.site>

Hi Dscho,

On Thursday 04 October 2007 14:56, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> 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"?

Yip ...

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> 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).

Ok. Pretty sure I got literal HEAD from one of the examples somewhere ... Or, I've been blind all along. Anyway, the maintainer may consider giving an error when trying to access HEAD as a module. Would have saved about 2 days work and its unlikely I'm the last victim :-(

Part of the two days is that during all the things I tried somehow messed up with master too, so the one time I tried that it failed as well :-(

Anyway, case closed.  On with the testing ...

	Thanks --- Jan