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 > commit IDs back. This just needs to be reverted: git revert e371046b6473907aa6d62b7862a3afe9d33561e1 Thanks, John -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html