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Please revert e371046b6473907aa6d62b7862a3afe9d33561e1

From
John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 6, 2012, 10:28 UTC
Message-ID
<m24nqoohss.fsf@gmail.com>

I've spoken to the author of this commit, Matthias Urlichs. Here is an excerpt of our conversation:

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> 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
> commit IDs back.
This just needs to be reverted:
    git revert e371046b6473907aa6d62b7862a3afe9d33561e1
Thanks,
  John
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