Re: trouble getting git cvsimport working

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 10, 2009, 14:55 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0901101553590.30769@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <81bfc67a0901100635i4d33c294x393a8d2dfc2b0e0d@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Caleb Cushing wrote:

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> git cvsimport -a -v -d
> :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gentoo.org/var/cvsroot/ gentoo-x86 -C
> portage
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/portdev/cvs/portage/.git/
> Running cvsps...
> parse error on third token
> WARNING: malformed CVS version str: Server: (unknown)
> WARNING: Your CVS client version:
> [Client: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.12.12 (client)]
> and/or server version:
> [Server: (unknown)]
> are too old to properly support the rlog command.
> This command was introduced in 1.11.1.  Cvsps
> will use log instead, but PatchSet numbering
> may become unstable due to pruned empty
> directories.

This is the problem.

> cvs log: warning: failed to open /home/portdev/.cvspass for reading:
> No such file or directory
> cvs log: in directory .:
> cvs [log aborted]: there is no version here; run 'cvs checkout' first

And this is the solution: Just try

	$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gentoo.org/var/cvsroot/ \
		co gentoo-x86
	$ cd gentoo-x86
	$ git cvsimport -v

(I assume it is a live repository, so -a is dangerous.)

Hth, Dscho