From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:48:30 GMT
Subject: Re: Not a valid object name refs/heads/t20050127-arm during git-cvsimport
Message-ID: <4759876E.4080807@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <m38x4auyga.fsf@roke.D-201>

Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net> writes:
> 
>> I want to import a CVS repo myrepo into git. I copied CVSHEAD and myrepo
>> dirs from the cvs server to /home/ibr/tmp and issued the following
>> command:
>>
>> git-cvsimport -p x -k -o cvshead -d/home/ibr/tmp -C zzz myrepo/drv
>>
>> It fails [...]
> 
> You can try to use other CVS importers, for example parsecvs [...]

Or cvs2svn, which can now also output to git.  See these threads for
more info:

http://marc.info/?l=git&m=118592701426175&w=4
http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=users&by=thread&from=624393

Michael