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Re: Not a valid object name refs/heads/t20050127-arm during git-cvsimport

From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 4, 2007, 18:06 UTC
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Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net> writes:
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> I want to import a CVS repo myrepo into git. I copied CVSHEAD and myrepo
> dirs from the cvs server to /home/ibr/tmp and issued the following
> command:
> 
> git-cvsimport -p x -k -o cvshead -d/home/ibr/tmp -C zzz myrepo/drv
> 
> It fails [...]
You can try to use other CVS importers, for example parsecvs from
Freedesktop project; see InterfaceFrontendsAndTools page on git wiki:
  http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools
-- 
Jakub Narebski
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  1. Baurzhan IsmagulovDec 4, 2007
  2. Jakub NarebskiDec 4, 2007
  3. Michael HaggertyDec 7, 2007

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