# git cvsimport error 7 messages from 2008-05-21 to 2008-05-24. Participants: Adam Mercer, Craig L. Ching, Shawn O. Pearce. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13605 ## Adam Mercer, 2008-05-21 19:14 Subject: git cvsimport error Message-ID: <799406d60805211214r6315268ard77678eb2ec5d732@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/799406d60805211214r6315268ard77678eb2ec5d732%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hi I'm trying to convert a CVS repository to GIT (1.5.5.1 on Intel Mac OS X 10.5.2) using the following: [ram@mimir ~]$ git cvsimport -v -d :local:/Users/ram/test_cvs -C glue.git glue Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/ram/glue.git/.git/ Running cvsps... cvs_direct initialized to CVSROOT /Users/ram/test_cvs cvs rlog: Logging glue cvs rlog: Logging glue/bin cvs rlog: Logging glue/debian cvs rlog: Logging glue/doc cvs rlog: Logging glue/etc cvs rlog: Logging glue/glue cvs rlog: Logging glue/glue/ligolw cvs rlog: Logging glue/glue/ligolw/utils cvs rlog: Logging glue/glue/segfindserver cvs rlog: Logging glue/glue/segfindserver/segments_1_7 cvs rlog: Logging glue/man cvs rlog: Logging glue/man/man1 cvs rlog: Logging glue/sbin cvs rlog: Logging glue/src cvs rlog: Logging glue/src/conf cvs rlog: Logging glue/src/conf/db2 cvs rlog: Logging glue/src/conf/mysql cvs rlog: Logging glue/src/conf/q_replication cvs rlog: Logging glue/src/conf/q_replication/cit cvs rlog: Logging glue/src/conf/q_replication/lho cvs rlog: Logging glue/src/conf/q_replication/llo cvs rlog: Logging glue/src/segments cvs rlog: Logging glue/test Fetching glue/ldbd.py v 1.1 Unknown: error [ram@mimir ~]$ How can I get a more verbose error message to try and fix what's going wrong here? Cheers Adam ``` ## Adam Mercer, 2008-05-21 19:39 Subject: Re: git cvsimport error Message-ID: <799406d60805211239n42c39ea6iaa41a9ab379cafaa@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/799406d60805211239n42c39ea6iaa41a9ab379cafaa%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <799406d60805211214r6315268ard77678eb2ec5d732@mail.gmail.com> ``` On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Adam Mercer wrote: > Fetching glue/ldbd.py v 1.1 > Unknown: error > [ram@mimir ~]$ Done some digging with cvsps itself and it looks like the lbdb.py,v file has become corrupted from a very early version... Is there a way that I can tell git to ignore the early revisions? Cheers Adam ``` ## Craig L. Ching, 2008-05-21 19:51 Subject: RE: git cvsimport error Message-ID: <63BEA5E623E09F4D92233FB12A9F794301FC8B2D@emailmn.mqsoftware.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/63BEA5E623E09F4D92233FB12A9F794301FC8B2D%40emailmn.mqsoftware.com In-Reply-To: <799406d60805211239n42c39ea6iaa41a9ab379cafaa@mail.gmail.com> ``` > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Adam Mercer > wrote: > > > Fetching glue/ldbd.py v 1.1 > > Unknown: error > > [ram@mimir ~]$ > > Done some digging with cvsps itself and it looks like the > lbdb.py,v file has become corrupted from a very early version... > > Is there a way that I can tell git to ignore the early revisions? > Not a cvsps expert, but I'm at the same point as you in converting a repo ;-) Would the -d option on cvsps do what you want? > Cheers > > Adam > -- > Cheers, Craig ``` ## Adam Mercer, 2008-05-23 20:01 Subject: Re: git cvsimport error Message-ID: <799406d60805231301l18c288ebt86a028e1ef795d9d@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/799406d60805231301l18c288ebt86a028e1ef795d9d%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <63BEA5E623E09F4D92233FB12A9F794301FC8B2D@emailmn.mqsoftware.com> ``` On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Craig L. Ching wrote: > Not a cvsps expert, but I'm at the same point as you in converting a > repo ;-) Would the -d option on cvsps do what you want? It should but I can't get it too work, the ldbd.py,v file is OK from 2003/05/06 07:39:52, so after consulting the man pages for both git-cvsimport and cvsps I ran the following $ git cvsimport -v -p "-d" -p "2003/05/06 07:40:00" -d:local:/Users/ram/test_cvs -C glue.git glue yet git/cvsps still tries to retrieve the bad revisions, prior to the above date. I'm clearly missing something? Cheers Adam ``` ## Adam Mercer, 2008-05-23 20:24 Subject: Re: git cvsimport error Message-ID: <799406d60805231324o209692d2o59a700024e52100c@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/799406d60805231324o209692d2o59a700024e52100c%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <63BEA5E623E09F4D92233FB12A9F794301FC8BCA@emailmn.mqsoftware.com> ``` On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Craig L. Ching wrote: > Yeah, I don't know much about it at all, but my advice would be to run > cvsps by itself and generate a cache that git-fast-import can import. > That's the approach we're taking because it gives us a chance to figure > out where things have gone wrong as we have some bad, buggy commits in > our archive (CVS created the bad commits). I thought of using git-fast-import but the problem is that the CVS repository is still in use so I need to keep the git and CVS repos synchronised and it seems like git-fast-import can't be used in this case. Cheers Adam ``` ## Shawn O. Pearce, 2008-05-23 20:30 Subject: Re: git cvsimport error Message-ID: <20080523203025.GU29038@spearce.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080523203025.GU29038%40spearce.org In-Reply-To: <799406d60805231324o209692d2o59a700024e52100c@mail.gmail.com> ``` Adam Mercer wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Craig L. Ching wrote: > > Yeah, I don't know much about it at all, but my advice would be to run > > cvsps by itself and generate a cache that git-fast-import can import. > > That's the approach we're taking because it gives us a chance to figure > > out where things have gone wrong as we have some bad, buggy commits in > > our archive (CVS created the bad commits). > > I thought of using git-fast-import but the problem is that the CVS > repository is still in use so I need to keep the git and CVS repos > synchronised and it seems like git-fast-import can't be used in this > case. You can run fast-import in incremental behavior. You just have to restart each branch with a "from refs/heads/master^0" or whatever. There's some discussion of this in the (rather large) fast-import man page. -- Shawn. ``` ## Adam Mercer, 2008-05-24 05:23 Subject: Re: git cvsimport error Message-ID: <799406d60805232223q3e2e0cf3k9abfe97ca94d3eff@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/799406d60805232223q3e2e0cf3k9abfe97ca94d3eff%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20080523203025.GU29038@spearce.org> ``` On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > You can run fast-import in incremental behavior. You just have to > restart each branch with a "from refs/heads/master^0" or whatever. > There's some discussion of this in the (rather large) fast-import > man page. Thanks I'll take a look at that as I've found that I can pass the -d option to cvsps which _should_ tell it to ignore revisions before a certain date, but even doing this cvsimport tries to import the broken revision prior date! Cheers Adam ```