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sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> writes:

> ...   Apparently he is more or less
> hand munging mutliple cvs branches into a nice git package for 
> Linus to pull.  He said that many of the patches don't apply as-is
> and need some manual tweaking before committing.

Then what is needed is an exporter from those cvs branches into
git.  Well, don't we have one already?  If it does not work for
dirty changes, wouldn't it be better to fix it so it is
restartable, just like when rebase stops it lets you fix up and
go on, without having you to write "From: " or GIT_AUTHOR_*
yourself and just does the right thing?