cvsimport infinite loop

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date: Feb 9, 2008, 11:45 UTC
Message-ID: <200802091245.38578.peter_e@gmx.net>

I'm trying to convert the PostgreSQL CVS to Git, using Git 1.5.4 (but the problem also occurs with earlier versions). To reproduce:

$ rsync -avzCH --delete anoncvs.postgresql.org::pgsql-cvs cvsroot/ $ git-cvsimport -v -d $PWD/cvsroot pgsql

This runs for a while and then messages like this are repeating:

WARNING: Invalid PatchSet 2062, Tag REL7_1_BETA2:
    src/include/c.h:1.17=after, src/include/executor/nodeNestloop.h:1.2=before. Treated as 'before'
WARNING: Invalid PatchSet 2062, Tag REL7_1_BETA2:
    src/include/c.h:1.17=after, src/include/executor/nodeResult.h:1.2=before. Treated as 'before'
WARNING: Invalid PatchSet 2062, Tag REL7_1_BETA2:
    src/include/c.h:1.17=after, src/include/executor/nodeSeqscan.h:1.3=before. Treated as 'before'

...

WARNING: Invalid PatchSet 2064, Tag REL7_1_BETA2:
    src/include/c.h:1.18=after, src/include/executor/nodeNestloop.h:1.3=before. Treated as 'before'
WARNING: Invalid PatchSet 2064, Tag REL7_1_BETA2:
    src/include/c.h:1.18=after, src/include/executor/nodeResult.h:1.3=before. Treated as 'before'
WARNING: Invalid PatchSet 2064, Tag REL7_1_BETA2:
    src/include/c.h:1.18=after, src/include/executor/nodeSeqscan.h:1.4=before. Treated as 'before'

... ... ...

and then they start again

WARNING: Invalid PatchSet 2062, Tag REL7_1_BETA2:
    src/include/c.h:1.17=after, src/include/executor/nodeNestloop.h:1.2=before. Treated as 'before'
WARNING: Invalid PatchSet 2062, Tag REL7_1_BETA2:
    src/include/c.h:1.17=after, src/include/executor/nodeResult.h:1.2=before. Treated as 'before'
WARNING: Invalid PatchSet 2062, Tag REL7_1_BETA2:
    src/include/c.h:1.17=after, src/include/executor/nodeSeqscan.h:1.3=before. Treated as 'before'

I've let this run all night and it doesn't stop.

I don't want to exclude the possibility that the CVS repository has had some funny business done to it over the years, but surely an infinite loop shouldn't happen in any case. Please advise.