Re: cvsimport: trying to convert freebsd cvs to git

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Dec 23, 2007, 17:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20071223172913.GA9297@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20071222171801.GE15286@genesis.frugalware.org>

On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 06:18:01PM +0100, Miklos Vajna wrote:

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> then i tried:
> 
> $ time git cvsimport -d `pwd`/cvs -C src.git src
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/vmiklos/git/freebsd/src.git/.git/
> malformed revision

This is the actual error; everything else is git-cvsimport failing to notice the problem and continuing anyway.

I will take a look and see if it is simple to stop the process here and produce a better error message.

> 1) does cvsimport supports the case when the source if on the local
> filesystem, and not in not on a cvs server?

Yes, it should work fine (it will still call cvsps and CVS, so it should look the same to git-cvsimport).

> 2) if it supports, then i think the real error message is 'malformed
> revision'. what is the proper way to see where is that revision?

Try git-cvsimport -v.

-Peff