# [PATCH] git-cvsimport: perform initial checkout correctly

1 messages from 2007-03-18 to 2007-03-18. Participants: Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/7290

## Junio C Hamano, 2007-03-18 09:16

Subject: [PATCH] git-cvsimport: perform initial checkout correctly
Message-ID: <7vlkhunc7t.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vlkhunc7t.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net

```
Often people wonder why cvsimport does not perform the initial
checkout even though -i option is not given.

---
 git-cvsimport.perl |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-cvsimport.perl b/git-cvsimport.perl
index 1a1ba7b..e269e26 100755
--- a/git-cvsimport.perl
+++ b/git-cvsimport.perl
@@ -1017,7 +1017,7 @@ if ($orig_branch) {
 		unless -f "$git_dir/refs/heads/master";
 	system('git-update-ref', 'HEAD', "$orig_branch");
 	unless ($opt_i) {
-		system('git checkout');
+		system('git checkout -f));
 		die "checkout failed: $?\n" if $?;
 	}
 }

```