Re: [PATCH] git-cvsimport: fix initial checkout

From: Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz>
Date: Mar 13, 2008, 23:27 UTC
Message-ID: <47D9B875.50305@catalyst.net.nz>
In-Reply-To: <7vr6eew70a.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Martin, it may not even be in $git_dir/refs/heads/$last_branch ;-)  The
> refs can be packed.

Yes. I was suggesting git-ref-parse to support packed refs, but this slipped ;-)

> By the way, doesn't cvsimport fail when your HEAD is detached with this
> code?

Perhaps. Importing on a working repo with -i is a bit messy, and detached heads may well break it. I'm not that conversant on how detached heads look ;-)

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> I always have cvsimport update the pristine upstream branch and rebase my
> work against it, so I never have the branch cvsimport updates checked
> out, and  for meit seems to work wonderfully (well, at least as wonderful
> as a workflow that involves any CVS in it could be).  I do not see a
> reason why it should not to work similarly well when my HEAD is detached..

sounds reasonable.

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