From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: "Jean-François Veillette" <jean.francois.veillette@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: problem with git cvsimport
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:37:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46DA5A12.2090506@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A74F186F-7C25-48D5-9354-C74576439AF1@gmail.com>
Jean-François Veillette wrote:
> I can't get git-cvsimport to convert a cvs project to git (full log
> bellow).
> I always get :
> fatal: Not a valid object name refs/heads/HEAD
> read-tree failed: 32768
>
> I'm a relatively new to git. I would like to convert my project and
> track external projects with git.
> But cvsimport seem to fail. Any pointer to help me resolve the issue is
> welcome !
I suggest you try the experimental support in cvs2svn for converting to
git. cvs2svn is very good about understanding strange CVS histories.
See the following thread for more information:
http://marc.info/?l=git&m=118592701426175&w=4
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-02 6:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-31 14:31 problem with git cvsimport Jean-François Veillette
2007-09-02 6:37 ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
2007-09-03 0:51 ` Jean-François Veillette
2007-09-03 11:28 ` Simon 'corecode' Schubert
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