Re: git-cvsimport problem

On Tue, 30 May 2006, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:

and it looks like it hangs in the middle with message:

cvs [rlog aborted]: unexpected '\x0' reading revision number in RCS file
/home/cvsroot/lms/templates/noaccess.html,v

Are you sure that CVS archive isn't corrupted? That sounds like an 
internal CVS error to me. Doing a "git cvsimport" will obviously get every 
single version of every single file, so it will inevitably also hit errors 
that you migt not hit with a regular "cvs co" (which will only get the 
current version).

There's bound to be some "fsck for CVS" (since people edit files by hand, 
and mistakes must happen), but I have no idea.

That said, it's not like we haven't had our share of cvsps issues and 
other things, so who knows..

and to my understanding does not do anything usefull next. Nothing is imported
(there is only nearly empty .git tree).

Do "git log origin" to see what has been imported. If a cvsimport is 
broken in the middle, you'll not get any checked-out state, and your HEAD 
won't point to anything, but the "origin" branch has been created and 
contains whatever has been imported so far.

			Linus