I guess it boils down to priority.  History becomes inconvenient to trace
at some point.  That's true for most human things...nothing is perfect.

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On Oct 5, 2014 10:48 PM, "Ulrich Mueller" <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:

> >>>>> On Sun, 5 Oct 2014, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
>
> > Libraries don't have to be sad.  If the history remains in a CVS
> > repo isn't that the perfect home for it in the museum of gentoo's
> > history?
>
> Having the complete history in a single repository would be much
> preferable, even if that history is not perfect.
>
> It's annoying if you search for the point when some change was
> performed, only to find that the repo's history doesn't reach back
> that far. I've had this issue e.g. with the Portage repository whose
> history was cut off at some point. Having to change tools (from git to
> cvs) in addition doesn't make it better.
>
> Ulrich
>