I wrote: > cvs-fast-export -k changes all .cvsignore files in the converted history > to .gitignore files, so browsing history looks like git had been in use > since the beginning.
Clearly I'm not awake yet (I'm fighting a bad cold and have been sleeping a lot). I confused keyword expansion with .cvsignore conversion. That conversion happens unconditionally, and I see a .gitignore in the repo I pushed to Savannah. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>