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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
Subject: Re: I have end-of-lifed cvsps
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:20:09 -0500
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John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>:
> Which I think sums up the position nicely; if you're doing a one-shot
> import then the standalone tools are going to be a better choice, but if
> you're trying to use Git for your work on top of CVS the only choice is
> cvsps with git-cvsimport.

Which will trash your history - the bugs in that are worse than the bugs
in 3.0, which are bad enough that I *terminated* it.

Lovely....
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