On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 01:55:36PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 03:47:31PM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Chad Perrin <c...@apotheon.net> 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 <u...@uri.for/projectname/index.cgi> projectname.fossil
> > >
> > > I imported from Git:
> > >
> > >     $ git fast-export --all | fossil import --git --incremental \
> > >     /path/to/projectname.fossil
> > >

Bah incremental requires the repo to exist. Without incremental the
import is successful and trunk is set correctly.

> > > 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.
> 
>     git://repo.or.cz/nvi.git
> 
> For reference, I'm using . . .
> 
>     $ fossil version
>     This is fossil version 1.28 [3d49f04587] 2014-01-27 17:33:44 UTC
> 
> . . . on FreeBSD, installed from ports, with the JSON and STATIC options
> both selected at build time.
> 
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