Use git-for-each-ref to check whether the origin branch exists.

This works in repositories that have their refs packed by
"git-pack-refs --all --prune" whereas testing the file
$git_dir/refs/heads/$opt_o does not.

Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/git-cvsimport.perl b/git-cvsimport.perl
index ac74bc51b3197d06f13f588d6916400ac3e6fcf0..f68afe78a0a0ea4997b8988f241cd3a675d785f9 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-cvsimport.perl
+++ b/git-cvsimport.perl
@@ -559,11 +559,6 @@ unless (-d $git_dir) {
        $last_branch = $opt_o;
        $orig_branch = "";
 } else {
-       -f "$git_dir/refs/heads/$opt_o"
-               or die "Branch '$opt_o' does not exist.\n".
-                      "Either use the correct '-o branch' option,\n".
-                      "or import to a new repository.\n";
-
        open(F, "git-symbolic-ref HEAD |") or
                die "Cannot run git-symbolic-ref: $!\n";
        chomp ($last_branch = <F>);
@@ -588,6 +583,11 @@ unless (-d $git_dir) {
                $branch_date{$head} = $1;
        }
        close(H);
+        if (!exists $branch_date{$opt_o}) {
+               die "Branch '$opt_o' does not exist.\n".
+                      "Either use the correct '-o branch' option,\n".
+                      "or import to a new repository.\n";
+        }
 }
 
 -d $git_dir