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Jon Smirl wrote:
> It is a historical import. Everything that was in the initial repo
> needs to be preserved otherwise they aren't going to get rid of the
> old CVS repo.
>   

You can tag a tree which contains the raw RCS files used for the import;
then they'll be available forever!

Sam