From: Cameron McBride <cameron.mcbride@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 03:34:21 GMT
Subject: Re: git-cvsserver wart?
Message-ID: <dcedf5e20605252034y8171d32x57d9d8d575443612@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90605252028h556d0b2aob43f5c3dca8a5392@mail.gmail.com>

On 5/25/06, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/26/06, Cameron McBride <cameron.mcbride@gmail.com> wrote:
> > WARN  - file 'index' already exists in the git repository
>
> This warning means that you are running git-cvsserver off a repo where
> you also have a checkout. git-cvsserver really expects to be running
> off a 'naked' or 'bare' repo. For read only ops I think it kind-of
> works in a 'checkout' repo, but commits are a different story.

hmmm, it is supposed to be a bare repo.  perhaps I flubbed something
up.  Can I safely delete this index file?  It's in the repo.git
directory.  Perhaps it got created on the initial import from CVS
(using cvsimport and cvsps)?

Cameron