* git-cvsimport : fatal: 'Root_branche_2_0_*_' is not a valid tag name.
@ 2009-02-12 7:26 Prenom Nom
2009-02-12 9:32 ` Michael Haggerty
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From: Prenom Nom @ 2009-02-12 7:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: git
Hi,
during a run of git-cvsimport, i got this error :
fatal: 'Root_branche_2_0_*_' is not a valid tag name.
Cannot create tag Root_branche_2_0_*_: Bad file descriptor
I can't use -p -b xxx since i would like to test branch merging in git
so i need HEAD AND some CVS branch (you can't use -b 2 times for cvsps).
So i guess i won't be able to test git branch merging...
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* Re: git-cvsimport : fatal: 'Root_branche_2_0_*_' is not a valid tag name.
2009-02-12 7:26 git-cvsimport : fatal: 'Root_branche_2_0_*_' is not a valid tag name Prenom Nom
@ 2009-02-12 9:32 ` Michael Haggerty
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From: Michael Haggerty @ 2009-02-12 9:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Prenom Nom; +Cc: git
Prenom Nom wrote:
> i'd like to import a project from CVS.
If you can do this as a one-time conversion, please consider using
cvs2git [1].
> The cvs commits are done using
> Cp1252 encoding charset. The thing is i cannot change the .git/config
> file since the repo is created by git-cvsimport. So how can i use the
> good charset ?
cvs2git can convert the encoding of filenames, log messages, and author
names during the conversion.
> during a run of git-cvsimport, i got this error :
> fatal: 'Root_branche_2_0_*_' is not a valid tag name.
> Cannot create tag Root_branche_2_0_*_: Bad file descriptor
cvs2git can arbitrarily transform tag and branch names during the
conversion via user-specified transformation rules.
> I can't use -p -b xxx since i would like to test branch merging in git
> so i need HEAD AND some CVS branch (you can't use -b 2 times for cvsps).
>
> So i guess i won't be able to test git branch merging...
Long-term synchronization between CVS and git is fragile. Consider
converting to git altogether. If that is not possible for political or
technical reasons, consider converting your repository to Subversion
(IMHO a no-brainer in even the most conservative shop), then using
git-svn as a git-to-Subversion bridge (it is much more reliable than
git-to-CVS).
Michael
[1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2git.html
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