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Re: git-cvsimport bug

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Nov 28, 2007, 16:57 UTC
Message-ID
<20071128165746.GC20308@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<20071127150136.GA50697@orion.lan>
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 04:01:36PM +0100, Emanuele Giaquinta wrote:
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> a call to git-cvsimport after a 'git-pack-refs --all' seems to mess up
> the origin branch, because the first new change is committed with no
> parent (git-cvsimport reports 'Parent ID (empty)').
> It does not happen if I disable loose refs pruning with --no-prune. A
> tiny test repo you can use to reproduce the problem is
> mextli.tomaw.net/~exg/lzf.tar. Is it expected?

Some of git-cvsimport is quite old, and it accesses the ref files directly. It should be fairly easy to fix; I will post a patch in a few minutes.

-Peff
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