From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:08:27 GMT
Subject: Re: git cvsimport fails noisily if cvs has no server support
Message-ID: <200802031908.28115.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <47A5DD98.6000606@gmx.ch>

söndagen den 3 februari 2008 skrev Jean-Luc Herren:
> Hello list!
> 
> cvs (1.12.12) can be compiled with --disable-server to omit
> support for cvs servers.  Although this is not ./configure's
> default, it was the default on my distro (gentoo).  git-cvsimport
> fails loudly as pasted below (note that this command is part of
> the test t9600-cvsimport.sh).  Nicer behavior would of course be
> to detect the situation and inform the user that server support is
> missing (and to skip the test).
> 
> jlh
> 
> $ git-cvsimport -a -z 0 -C module-git module

I'm guessing now, but try -Z '--cvs-direct'.

-- robin