# git-cvsimport broken?

3 messages from 2006-03-02 to 2006-03-02. Participants: H. Peter Anvin, Martin Langhoff.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/3529

## H. Peter Anvin, 2006-03-02 22:47

Subject: git-cvsimport broken?
Message-ID: <440775FB.4000300@zytor.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/440775FB.4000300%40zytor.com

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I have started consistently getting the following error trying to do a 
git-cvsimport into an empty directory:

+ git cvsimport -C /home/hpa/local/kernel-cvs-import -k -u -m -A 
/home/hpa/local/authors -d /home/hpa/local/cvsroot 
project/sw/kernel/linux-2.6
cp: cannot stat `/export/hpa/kernel-cvs-import/.git/refs/heads/origin': 
No such file or directory
fatal: master: not a valid SHA1
fatal: 'HEAD': No such file or directory
usage: git-read-tree (<sha> | -m [-u | -i] <sha1> [<sha2> [<sha3>]])
checkout failed: 256

After failing, the directory in question contains the output of 
git-init-db, including a HEAD file which contains a symbolic reference 
to a nonexistent branch (which makes sense, since there has been no 
checkins yet.)

Have other people seen this problem?

	-hpa

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## H. Peter Anvin, 2006-03-02 22:54

Subject: Re: git-cvsimport broken?
Message-ID: <440777B1.5030807@zytor.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/440777B1.5030807%40zytor.com
In-Reply-To: <440775FB.4000300@zytor.com>

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H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> I have started consistently getting the following error trying to do a 
> git-cvsimport into an empty directory:
> 
> + git cvsimport -C /home/hpa/local/kernel-cvs-import -k -u -m -A 
> /home/hpa/local/authors -d /home/hpa/local/cvsroot 
> project/sw/kernel/linux-2.6
> cp: cannot stat `/export/hpa/kernel-cvs-import/.git/refs/heads/origin': 
> No such file or directory
> fatal: master: not a valid SHA1
> fatal: 'HEAD': No such file or directory
> usage: git-read-tree (<sha> | -m [-u | -i] <sha1> [<sha2> [<sha3>]])
> checkout failed: 256
> 

Turns out to be user error (the CVS module is "projects", not 
"project"), but that probably indicates something that could use a 
better error message, in particular: if there are zero changesets.

	-hpa

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## Martin Langhoff, 2006-03-02 22:56

Subject: Re: git-cvsimport broken?
Message-ID: <46a038f90603021456h153b85pb980088fae5d598@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/46a038f90603021456h153b85pb980088fae5d598%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <440775FB.4000300@zytor.com>

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On 3/3/06, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> Have other people seen this problem?

Been running imports recently (with a cvsimport not more that 3 days
old). No problem.


m

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