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-This is an import of the old danceos svn repository
-The failstar development started with rev 2108
+This is an import of the old danceos svn repository.  The Fail* development
+started with rev 187, but this git import only contains revisions 956 and newer
+due to directory structure changes.
 
 Imported from external gitsvn checkout.
 http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/using-merge-subtree.html