Why is git-cvsimport missing one major patchset?

Question

This is a followup to a previous question of mine.

I can look through the output of cvsps (saved in my ~/.cvsps directory) and see a patchset for a major, complicated co

Answer 1

I encountered such thing recently - there was a commit in CVS that didn't show up in git after git cvsimport; later commits did (it bit me hard, because I produced nonworking patches afterwards.

However, the fix was simple and stupid - I just reset the cvs/master branch before the missing commit, rerun git cvsimport, and there it was.