On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 03:39:00PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > it's "PatchSet 104" (well, for me it is, I have a hacked cvsps, so it > might not be that for you), which creates the "gdb-4_18-branch", but it > appears that cvsps hasn't actually figured out any "Ancestor branch" for > that commit. > > What a crock. > > Anyway, it's clearly a cvsps bug (mentioning a new branch without the > _source_ of that branch). Equally clearly, "git cvsimport" is being an ass > about then failing so totally on it. > > I'll try to take a look at why cvsps does that. Last I converted CVS trees to git found that about half of the branches were branching off from the wrong commit of the parent branch. At that time I decieded to just move the branch using a quick script instead of diving into cvsps. Ralf - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html