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+# for conversion of Door code to Git repo
+
+/home/other/cvs is a local copy of the UCC cvs repo
+/home/other/cvslock is a local dir for CVS locks
+
+git cvsimport -v -p x -A ~/hack/uccvend-docs/author-conv-file -d /home/other/cvs/ projects/dispense2/sql-edition/servers