From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor•com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-cvsimport broken?
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:54:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <440777B1.5030807@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <440775FB.4000300@zytor.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-02 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-02 22:47 git-cvsimport broken? H. Peter Anvin
2006-03-02 22:54 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-03-02 22:56 ` Martin Langhoff
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