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Re: Please revert e371046b6473907aa6d62b7862a3afe9d33561e1

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Thomas Adam <thomas@xteddy.org>
Date
Jun 6, 2012, 17:54 UTC
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On 6 June 2012 11:28, John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I've spoken to the author of this commit, Matthias Urlichs.  Here 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.  I have a client whose CVS
>> > repository I'm converting to Git, and they have _many_ log messages that
>> > are larger than 32k in size.
>>
>> Feel free to submit a patch that reverts this. These days, there's probably
>> no user of cvs2git left, but at that time it was important to get the 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
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  1. John WiegleyJun 6, 2012
  2. Junio C HamanoJun 6, 2012
  3. Thomas AdamJun 6, 2012
  4. John WiegleyJun 6, 2012
  5. Michael HaggertyJun 7, 2012
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 7, 2012
  7. Andreas SchwabJun 7, 2012
  8. Junio C HamanoJun 7, 2012
  9. Andreas SchwabJun 7, 2012

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