Subject: Re: git-cvsimport broken?

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:54:41 -0800

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