On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Chad Perrin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Trying to fork/import from Git is kinda problematic. I started by > creating a new project on a server: > > $ fossil init projectname.fossil > > I then cloned locally: > > $ fossil clone <[email protected]/projectname/index.cgi> projectname.fossil > > I imported from Git: > > $ git fast-export --all | fossil import --git --incremental \ > /path/to/projectname.fossil > > I opened the repository: > > $ mkdir projectname; cd projectname > fossil open /path/to/projectname.fossil > The above should be all you need to do. It should just work. And it does "just work" for every git repository that I've tried, though that is, admittedly, not that many repos. If you are willing to share with us the specific repo you are trying to import, prehaps the developers can try it and discover what's going wrong. > > No files appear. I looked at the timeline: > > $ fossil timeline > === 2014-03-04 === > 20:24:06 [178338650a] *CURRENT* initial empty check-in (user: > apotheon tags: trunk) > === 2013-06-19 === > 21:12:33 [34ca661224] <last commit message from Git> > === 2011-10-16 === > . . . et cetera > > The obvious choice seems to be to use revert: > > $ fossil help revert > Usage: fossil revert ?-r REVISION? ?FILE ...? > > Revert to the current repository version of FILE, or to > the version associated with baseline REVISION if the -r flag > appears. > > [. . .] > > Revert all files if no file name is provided. > > [. . .] > > I tried that: > > $ fossil revert -r 34ca661224 > the --revision option does not work for the entire tree > > How do I actually get a repository import to a usable state so I can > push it to the server's repository and get on with my life? > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > -- D. Richard Hipp [email protected]
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