If you don't do development, you can skip this mail.

The git mirror of the NetBSD sources relevant for rump kernels until 
very recently contained the CVS metadata files.  The original intent was 
to make it easy to do minor updates from the upstream repo for testing 
things.  However, the downside is that those CVS files are ~30MB in 
size, and every time the timestamp is incremented and the mirror 
updated, all of those files change.  Needless to say, that was causing 
rumpkernel-netbsd-src to grow unnecessarily fast, making "git clone" 
slower and slower.

So, the CVS files are no longer there.  If you want them for 
development, you can always use "./buildrump.sh checkoutcvs".  We can 
now easily bump the timestamp every time there's a feature reason 
instead of worrying about the repo growing too much.  yay!

I'm also considering creating a new mirror repo without any of the CVS 
metadata baggage, but that should not have a user-visible impact either 
(apart from "git clone" transferring half as much data as it used to). 
Since everything is handled by buildrump.sh, there should be close to 
zero user-visible impact from this.

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