cvsimport: use git-update-ref when updating
This simplifies code, and also fixes a subtle bug: when importing in a
shared repository, where another user last imported from CVS, cvsimport
used to complain that it could not open <branch> for update.
Signed-off-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 3728294..c0ae00bd 100755
--- a/git-cvsimport.perl
+++ b/git-cvsimport.perl
@@ -677,11 +677,7 @@
waitpid($pid,0);
die "Error running git-commit-tree: $?\n" if $?;
- open(C,">$git_dir/refs/heads/$branch")
- or die "Cannot open branch $branch for update: $!\n";
- print C "$cid\n"
- or die "Cannot write branch $branch for update: $!\n";
- close(C)
+ system("git-update-ref refs/heads/$branch $cid") == 0
or die "Cannot write branch $branch for update: $!\n";
if($tag) {
