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Re: Importing from CVS issues

From
David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Date
Aug 16, 2005, 12:16 UTC
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Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com> writes:
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> Before the import script finally dies with:
>
> WARNING: revision 1.3.2.1 of file
> scripts/xmltools/t/data/gzip/DO-NOT-BACKUP on unnamed branch
> DONE; creating master branch
> cp: cannot stat `/export/test/cvstogit/.git/refs/heads/origin': No such
> file or directory

Was this done with an empty destination dir? I've seen similar things happen in a dir where an interrupted cvs import was done previously, and the 'origin' branch was never created.

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David Kågedal
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