# git-cvsimport cannot handle zsh CVS repo

3 messages from 2007-06-07 to 2007-06-14. Participants: Gerrit Pape, Martin Langhoff.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/8480

## Gerrit Pape, 2007-06-07 07:33

Subject: git-cvsimport cannot handle zsh CVS repo
Message-ID: <20070607073336.26979.qmail@178148a41cee98.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070607073336.26979.qmail%40178148a41cee98.315fe32.mid.smarden.org

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Hi, I'm stuck tracking down this issue, unfortunately reproducing it
seems to take ages.  Any help would be appreciated.

Please see http://bugs.debian.org/426617

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Package: git-cvs
Version: 1:1.5.1.4-2
Severity: normal

After multiple invocations, I get the following.

% git-cvsimport -v -d :pserver:anonymous@zsh.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/zsh zsh
fatal: Needed a single revision
Running cvsps...
WARNING: revision 1.1.1.7.2.1 of file Src/Zle/zle_refresh.c on unnamed branch
[...]
skip patchset 6963: 1180450228 before 1180474771
skip patchset 6964: 1180458067 before 1180474771
skip patchset 6965: 1180474771 before 1180474771
DONE.
fatal: Needed a single revision
Can merge only exactly one commit into empty head
Could not merge origin into the current branch.
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Thanks, Gerrit.

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## Martin Langhoff, 2007-06-07 19:19

Subject: Re: git-cvsimport cannot handle zsh CVS repo
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On 6/7/07, Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> wrote:
> Hi, I'm stuck tracking down this issue, unfortunately reproducing it
> seems to take ages.  Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Please see http://bugs.debian.org/426617

This is probably a problem with cvsps output on that repo. If you run
cvsps against the cvs repo, what does its output look like around/past
patchset 6965

There's a number of things that can confuse cvsps, as the cvs repo
format is horrid.

cheers,


martin

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## Gerrit Pape, 2007-06-14 13:25

Subject: Re: git-cvsimport cannot handle zsh CVS repo
Message-ID: <20070614132547.16924.qmail@024805695ef066.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070614132547.16924.qmail%40024805695ef066.315fe32.mid.smarden.org
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90706071219h35d776d2m15a9dcf7f9bc24aa@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 07:19:14AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On 6/7/07, Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> wrote:
> >Hi, I'm stuck tracking down this issue, unfortunately reproducing it
> >seems to take ages.  Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> >Please see http://bugs.debian.org/426617
> 
> This is probably a problem with cvsps output on that repo. If you run
> cvsps against the cvs repo, what does its output look like around/past
> patchset 6965
> 
> There's a number of things that can confuse cvsps, as the cvs repo
> format is horrid.

Hi, the cvsps output is attached to the bug report

 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=426617;msg=72;filename=%3Apserver%3Aanonymous%40zsh.cvs.sourceforge.net%3A%23cvsroot%23zsh%23zsh;att=1

Does this help to track down and hopefully fix the problem?

Thanks, Gerrit.

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