From: Thomas Hühn <newsgroups@thomas-huehn.de>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 15:54:46 GMT
Subject: Re: git cvsimport fails
Message-ID: <87abwomtdl.fsf@mid.thomas-huehn.de>
In-Reply-To: <87ejm0mtpy.fsf@mid.thomas-huehn.de>

Thomas Hühn <newsgroups@thomas-huehn.de> writes:

> I'm trying to import from a CVS repository and get this error message at
> the end:
>
> |Commit ID 076fd7d71925bb551320aa20aa8eec68bf218f45
> |DONE.
> |fatal: Needed a single revision
> |Can merge only exactly one commit into empty head
> |Could not merge origin into the current branch.
>
> Is my git repo broken, is the CVS repo broken, is it just a shortcoming
> of cvsimport? Any idea whether it is fixable?

Okay, should have looked further for suitable git commands. git-fsck
tells me that HEAD is not a symbolic ref.

HEAD contains "ref: refs/heads/master", but refs/heads contains no
"master", just other files.

Can I find out, which hash master should point at?

Thomas