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cvsimport error: need a valid pathname

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KVKalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Date
Aug 27, 2005, 14:48 UTC
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<874q9bcu6d.fsf@litku.valo.iki.fi>
I have already imported a full CVS repository using this command:
git cvsimport -v -d :pserver:anonymous@hostap.epitest.fi:/cvs hostap

It completed without errors and I could use git to access the hostap history, just like I wanted. But now, when I was trying to get updates from the CVS repository, I got an error running the command in the same directory:

$ git cvsimport -v -d :pserver:anonymous@hostap.epitest.fi:/cvs hostap fileparse(): need a valid pathname at /usr/bin/git-cvsimport-script line 435 $

The documentation says that it should be possible to update incrementally from the CVS repository. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

I'm using git updated today from the master branch on Debian unstable.
-- 
Kalle Valo
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