Re: The first repository branch, "Windows linestyle fix."

[Eric S. R. <es...@th...>]

Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBB...@t-...>:
> Am 29.10.2017 um 20:01 schrieb Daniel J Sebald:
> >I've experimented with something called cvs2git, which I believe does a
> >pretty good job of constructing branches and merges, but has some
> >drawbacks.
> [...]
> >It's major drawbacks are:
> >
> >1) No corrected author info.
> >
> >2) All of the RCSid strings are replaced by empty string, e.g.,
> 
> That's not a drawback; it's a necessary consequence of moving to git. One
> way or another, all these strings (technically: RCS-style keywords) have to
> go.

There's a late step in reconvert that does exactly that.
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