Re: cvsimport: trying to convert freebsd cvs to git

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Dec 24, 2007, 03:05 UTC
Message-ID: <20071224030551.GA12495@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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> $ time git cvsimport -d `pwd`/cvs -C src.git src
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/vmiklos/git/freebsd/src.git/.git/
> malformed revision
> fatal: refs/heads/origin: not a valid SHA1
> fatal: master: not a valid SHA1
> warning: You appear to be on a branch yet to be born.
> warning: Forcing checkout of HEAD.
> fatal: just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?
> checkout failed: 256

I looked into this a bit more. The error is definitely coming from cvsps. I can't even get a reasonable cvsps output for this repo (presumably because of behind-the-scenes hackery on the RCS files). E.g., try making a module with _just_ "src/release/Attic/MIRROR.SITES,v"; I can't even get a reasonable cvsps output on that.

You might have better results with one of the other importers that have been suggested, most of which are more robust in the face of CVS oddities.

That being said, it's awful that git-cvsimport doesn't stop when cvsps exits with an error, producing all of those meaningless errors. Patch will follow.

-Peff