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git-cvs-import-script problems

From
David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Date
Aug 5, 2005, 10:14 UTC
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I just tried importing a large CVS repository to git, using "git cvsimport". It managed to import a lot of files and revisions, but half-way through, it stopped with this message:

  Unknown: F

As far as I can till, this "F" probably came from the CVS server process. Could it be that my CVS is too new or too old?

I'm using git b03e2d2091153d239063cfc086a840d74a9eadde, cvs 1.11.20, cvsps 2.1, and the CVS repository is a local directory.

Also, when the process stops, I have .git/HEAD pointing to refs/heads/master (which doesn't exist). I thought it would be pointing to refs/heads/origin.

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