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
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