From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:35:31 GMT
Subject: Re: git rev-parse --verify HEAD: fatal: Needed a single revision
Message-ID: <20080801143531.GT32057@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <g6ul10$rr9$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 11:29:04AM +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@pld-linux.org> wrote:
> How to reproduce:
> get http://carme.pld-linux.org/~arekm/rpm5.tar.bz2
> unpack
> cd rpm5
> git cvsimport -v -d :pserver:anonymous@rpm5.org:/cvs rpm

I did:

git cvsimport -v -d :pserver:anonymous@rpm5.org:/cvs -o master -C rpm rpm

first time it bailed out with an error, sadly I don't exactly remember,
but it was different to your error. Then I ran it again (of course
without rm -rf rpm) and it finished properly. The cvs checkout and git
HEAD differs only in one file (python/Makefile.in is removed in cvs, but
not in git).

I put it out to http://vmiklos.hu/gitweb/?p=rpm.git, if you are
interested.

> I'm using:
> $ git --version
> git version 1.5.6.4

$ git --version
git version 1.6.0.rc0.14.g95f8.dirty

Not sure if it matters or not.