Question

I am using git-cvsimport on Debian 6.0 to import a CVS repository to a bare git repository. I create a directoy project.git.

cd project.git

cvsps -x -u -g -r MCKINLEY -v --norc cvsmodulename >& ../output.txt

/usr/lib/git-core/git-cvsimport  -v -i -p r,MKCKINLEY -P ../output.txt modulename

It works for a long time and then I get the error saying:

* UNKNOWN LINE * symbol given -r : MCKINLEY: not found
DONE; creating master branch
fatal: refs/heads/origin: not a valid SHA1
fatal: master not a valid SHA1

What does this mean?

Answer 1

cvs2git was the approach I took that worked…