problem after cvsimport

I am new to git, so probably doing something wrong. Hope somebody can enlighten me. Here is what happened so far.

Followed instructions here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/cvs-migration.html

Did command like this:

$ git cvsimport -C <destination> <module>

This was done from top level of existing cvs working directory. Destination was new empty directory, outside the cvs tree.

It worked for several hours and seemed to complete ok. I can look at history in destination git directory with gitk and git log. All the stuff in ".git" looks normal, as far as I can tell.

But I have no files in the working directory. When I do command: $git checkout master

I get a bunch of lines to console with "D" in front. Btw, what does that mean? Nothing about it in "man git-checkout" or elsewhere that I can find. Then it says -- Already on branch "master"

But working directory is still empty.

Thanks much, Bert Douglas