Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:
The way I read the log message of e371046b64 is that the repository
resulting from the conversion without this patch will be different
for repositories that were originally converted by the older
cvs2git. So my impression is that it does not matter if the older
tool died long time ago. As long as repositories converted by it
still lives in the field, reverting the patch will start producing
different (and arguably more correct) results for people who are
using such a repository that started its life long time ago.
Only if the conversion is restarted from scratch. Otherwise, any
existing converted commits are preserved due to the incremental nature
of git cvsimport.
Andreas.
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