From c0635010db7fb67211206f8293e35c5297eedbee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Per Cederqvist <ceder@lysator.liu.se>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:20:36 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Created a README file.

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 README | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 README

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+To convert the lyskom-elisp-client repo from CVS to Git, clone this
+module, and type "make".  This will create 99.git which should be a
+reasonably good representation of the history of the elisp client.
+
+Prerequisites:
+
+ - A modern Git. Version 1.8.2 is good enough.
+
+ - Access to cvs.lysator.liu.se via ssh so that you can copy the repo.
+
+ - About 800 MB of disk space.  (The converted repo requires less than
+   12 Mbyte of space, but much more is needed during the conversion,
+   and we keep many copies of the data during the conversion.)
+
+ - Lots of time.  Running the conversion can take an hour, depending
+   on how fast your computer is.
+
+Caveats:
+
+ - If you change anything, especially in extratags.txt or
+   extrabranches.txt, you should remove the cache file in ~/.cvsps/.
+   These scripts try to pass "-p -u" to "git cvsimport", but
+   apparently that is not enough to throw away the content of that
+   cache file.
+
+TODO:
+
+ - Publish a new test conversion repo and ask for feedback.
+
+ - Compare the tags with any old source dists you can find.
+
+ - Look att all commits we alter and ensure they are sane.  In
+   particular, check that they contain the expected changes and have a
+   sane author, committer and timestamp.
+
+ - Upload the repo to git.lysator.liu.se.
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