From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:57:46 GMT
Subject: Re: git-cvsimport bug
Message-ID: <20071128165746.GC20308@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20071127150136.GA50697@orion.lan>

On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 04:01:36PM +0100, Emanuele Giaquinta wrote:

> 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