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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git-cvsimport-3 and incremental imports
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 15:34:22 -0800
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Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> You get to integrate this.  I think the transition strategy Junio
> has chosen is seriously mistaken, leading to unnecessary grief for users
> who will be fooled into thinking it's OK to still use cvsps-2.x.

So our choices are:

 a. support current users, offend ESR, don't benefit from ESR
    improvements

 b. give up on current users, please ESR, benefit from ESR
    improvements

 c. some option yet undiscovered

In that case, (c) sounds like our best bet.  Do I understand
correctly?

Sigh,
Jonathan