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thillaiselvan
thillaiselvan

Reputation: 647

error in migrating cvs to git

I have migrated a cvs repository to git repository.

But in the middle it gets quit and it says the error as Unknown: Error

What is the reason? How can I overcome from this? Any help much appreciated! Thanks in Advance!

Sample output:

New vfiles/alarms/4003_182.wav: 80044 bytes
Fetching vfiles/alarms/4003_183.wav   v 1.1
New vfiles/alarms/4003_183.wav: 92044 bytes
Fetching vfiles/alarms/4003_184.wav   v 1.1
New vfiles/alarms/4003_184.wav: 80044 bytes
Fetching vfiles/alarms/4003_19.wav   v 1.1
New vfiles/alarms/4003_19.wav: 72044 bytes
Fetching vfiles/alarms/4003_2.wav   v 1.1
Unknown: error

Upvotes: 2

Views: 797

Answers (1)

mvoelske
mvoelske

Reputation: 347

I've just run into the same issue. The "Unknown: error" is not from "git cvsimport" (which I suspect is what you're trying to do), but from "cvsps" (which is called by cvsimport under the hood). You can use the -p option to "git cvsimport" to pass additional options to "cvsps".

For me, the problem was a broken "~/.cvsps/cvsps.cache" file. Starting my git commandline like

git cvsimport -p "-x" [...]

(causing cvsps to rebuild its cache) fixed it for me.

Upvotes: 3

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