Greetings,
I'm learning git and decided to try importing a small CVS module into a git repository (before attempting a really big one). Existence of -i in git-cvsimport would seem to imply that it checkouts by default but it didn't seem to do that. That is, I did "git-cvsimport -d ~/.cvs_root -C module module" and I got a "module" directory that contains ".git" directory but nothing else. And saying "git checkout master" in "module" doesn't seem to do anything.
Finally I realized to try "git-checkout -f master" and that worked. By reading git-checkout(1) I just cannot see why -f was needed in this case or even what it generally does ("re-read of everything" -- um, what everything and why would you explicitly want to re-read that everything?).
I'm using git 1.4.4.3 and cvsps 2.1 (from a git repository recommended by some web page) on Debian GNU/Linux.
-- Hannu