Re: problems with importing from cvs archive

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 2, 2007, 09:39 UTC
Message-ID: <m3lk8dwi4x.fsf@roke.D-201>
In-Reply-To: <20071202064613.GB25351@venus>

"Ed S. Peschko" <esp5@pge.com> writes:

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> I'm trying to use git-cvsimport to import from a CVS archive, using:
> 
> git-cvsimport -d $CVSROOT
> 
> and am getting the following error:
> 
> 	fatal: refs/heads/origin: not a valid SHA1
> 	fatal: master: not a valid SHA1
> 	warning: You appear to be on a branch yet to be born
> 	warning: Forcing checkout of HEAD
> 	fatal: just how do you expect me to merge 0 trees?
> 	checkout failed: 256

[...]

> Or is this just a plain vanilla bug?

I guess that you might have been bitten by (just corrected, but not in any released version yet) the bug in git-cvsimport (which is quite old, and not very well maintained) when branches are packed.

You can either try last patch to cvsimport (it is in 'master'), or unpack refs using "git reset --soft HEAD" when on given packed branch,

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Jakub Narebski