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"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:

> I find the following sentence from cvs-migration.txt slightly confusing:
>
> 	"The cut-off is date-based, so don't change the branches that
> 	were imported from CVS."
>
> I assume the branches referrred to are the target git branches, not the
> source CVS branches?  (And are date-based cut-offs really the essential
> reason for this restriction?)

Sorry, I cannot answer this one immediately without researching
myself; I do not use cvsimport.

The way I read the code agrees with you.  The date from the
topmost commit from each git branch is read, and used to limit
the changes we read from CVS into them.  The code reads from
"author date", which is technically incorrect, but what we are
saying here is that you should never commit into these branches
yourself and let cvsimport be the only one that touch them, so
using commiter date and author date would not make a difference.