Re: git-cvsimport broken?

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Mar 2, 2006, 22:54 UTC
Message-ID: <440777B1.5030807@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <440775FB.4000300@zytor.com>

H. Peter Anvin wrote:

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> I have started consistently getting the following error trying to do a 
> git-cvsimport into an empty directory:
> 
> + git cvsimport -C /home/hpa/local/kernel-cvs-import -k -u -m -A 
> /home/hpa/local/authors -d /home/hpa/local/cvsroot 
> project/sw/kernel/linux-2.6
> cp: cannot stat `/export/hpa/kernel-cvs-import/.git/refs/heads/origin': 
> No such file or directory
> fatal: master: not a valid SHA1
> fatal: 'HEAD': No such file or directory
> usage: git-read-tree (<sha> | -m [-u | -i] <sha1> [<sha2> [<sha3>]])
> checkout failed: 256
>

Turns out to be user error (the CVS module is "projects", not "project"), but that probably indicates something that could use a better error message, in particular: if there are zero changesets.

	-hpa