On Dec 24, 2007 6:29 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 06:18:01PM +0100, Miklos Vajna wrote: > > > then i tried: > > > > $ time git cvsimport -d `pwd`/cvs -C src.git src > > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/vmiklos/git/freebsd/src.git/.git/ > > malformed revision > > This is the actual error; everything else is git-cvsimport failing to > notice the problem and continuing anyway. > > I will take a look and see if it is simple to stop the process here and > produce a better error message. Indeed. Running verbose will name the branch name that triggers that error. One thing I find useful is to capture the commandline passed to cvsps (using ps), stopping cvsimport+cvsps, and running cvsps by hand with the same commandline (remember to set TZ=UTC in the environment!), saving STDOUT to a file. Once you have the file, you can feed it to cvsimport with the -P parameter (IIRC). Usually cvsimport errors are all about wonky cvsps output. For the record, I normally do my initial imports with Keith's parsecvs, and then run incrementals using git-cvsimport. These incrementals aren't 100% perfect, so I routinely check for 'drift'. cheers, m - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
