From: Thomas Adam <thomas@xteddy.org>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:54:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Please revert e371046b6473907aa6d62b7862a3afe9d33561e1
Message-ID: <CA+39Oz4f_Wn1cVzqNWO76HZWa4AswSBpbriaRc0OznapVLJfGg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <m24nqoohss.fsf@gmail.com>

On 6 June 2012 11:28, John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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