From: Mirko Stocker <me@misto.ch>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:22:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Working with Git and CVS in a team.
Message-ID: <200806152222.50119.me@misto.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20080613205525.GA21165@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Friday 13 June 2008 22:55:26 Jeff King wrote:
> Ah, I hadn't thought of that. Apparently git-cvsimport doesn't
> understand bare repos. There is even a Debian bug reported:
>
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=472873
>
> You might be able to hack around it with:
>
>   mkdir bare.git && (cd bare.git && git init)
>   mkdir cvsimport-hack && ln -s ../bare.git cvsimport-hack/.git
>   git cvsimport -C cvsimport-hack

Uh, ok.. :) Thanks. 

I just wondered, do I even need the additional bare repository? If I use 
git-cvsimport with -i, then it creates only the .git without doing a 
checkout, then we could just clone this one from the clients and pull/push to 
it?

Thanks

Mirko