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

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

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3 messages between Dec 4, 2007 and Dec 7, 2007.

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Baurzhan Ismagulov· Dec 4, 2007, 17:18 UTC · lore

Hello,

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 with the following messages:

Initialized empty Git repository in /home/ibr/tmp/zzz/.git/ fatal: Not a valid object name refs/heads/t20050127-arm read-tree failed: 32768

t20050127-arm is a branch that exists not for all files under myrepo/drv.

How can I import this repo?

I use git 1.5.3.6-1.1 from Debian unstable and cvsps 2.1-2 from Debian stable on a Debian testing/unstable system.

Thanks in advance,

-- 
Baurzhan Ismagulov
http://www.kz-easy.com/

Jakub Narebski· Dec 4, 2007, 18:06 UTC · re: Baurzhan Ismagulov · lore

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

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

Michael Haggerty· Dec 7, 2007, 17:48 UTC · re: Jakub Narebski · lore

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

Jakub Narebski wrote:

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> Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net> writes:
> 
>> 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 [...]

Or cvs2svn, which can now also output to git. See these threads for more info:

http://marc.info/?l=git&m=118592701426175&w=4 http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=users&by=thread&from=624393

Michael