From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:16:22 GMT Subject: [PATCH] git-cvsimport: perform initial checkout correctly Message-ID: <7vlkhunc7t.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Often people wonder why cvsimport does not perform the initial checkout even though -i option is not given. --- git-cvsimport.perl | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/git-cvsimport.perl b/git-cvsimport.perl index 1a1ba7b..e269e26 100755 --- a/git-cvsimport.perl +++ b/git-cvsimport.perl @@ -1017,7 +1017,7 @@ if ($orig_branch) { unless -f "$git_dir/refs/heads/master"; system('git-update-ref', 'HEAD', "$orig_branch"); unless ($opt_i) { - system('git checkout'); + system('git checkout -f)); die "checkout failed: $?\n" if $?; } }