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From: Thomas Adam <thomas@xteddy.org>
Subject: Re: Please revert e371046b6473907aa6d62b7862a3afe9d33561e1
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 18:54:10 +0100
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On 6 June 2012 11:28, John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've spoken to the author of this commit, Matthias Urlichs. =C2=A0Her=
e is an
> excerpt of our conversation:
>
>> On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 00:08 -0500, John Wiegley wrote:
>> > Just wanted to let you know that this bit me. =C2=A0I have a clien=
t whose CVS
>> > repository I'm converting to Git, and they have _many_ log message=
s that
>> > are larger than 32k in size.
>>
>> Feel free to submit a patch that reverts this. These days, there's p=
robably
>> no user of cvs2git left, but at that time it was important to get th=
e same

This assertion is not only wrong, it's just ludicrous.  The intended
functionality has a statement of intent with regards to its
functionality -- and as a user of cvs2git, I'd not want to lose *any*
of that functionality.

Don't be stupid with this.  Please.

-- Thomas Adam