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 == mozilla/gecko ==
-mozilla/gecko is a mirror of a single Mercurial repository, mozilla-central as well as CVS history (in the "cvs" branch). It doesn't include other Mercurial repositories (aurora, inbound, etc.). Its "central" branch is read-only, but Gecko developers are welcome to create and commit to other branches in the repo. It's maintained by [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/myk/ Myk Melez] and is synchronized manually via Git and [https://github.com/glandium/git-cinnabar git-cinnabar] daily on weekdays and occasionally on weekends.
+mozilla/gecko is a mirror of a single Mercurial repository, mozilla-central as well as CVS history (in the "cvs" branch, which can be attached to the "central" branch via <code>git fetch origin 'refs/replace/*:refs/replace/*'</code>). It doesn't include other Mercurial repositories (aurora, inbound, etc.). Its "central" branch is read-only, but Gecko developers are welcome to create and commit to other branches in the repo. It's maintained by [https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/myk/ Myk Melez] and is synchronized manually via Git and [https://github.com/glandium/git-cinnabar git-cinnabar] daily on weekdays and occasionally on weekends.
 Myk created mozilla/gecko because he was synchronizing mozilla-central to a Git repo using git-cinnabar for his own development, and he thought it might be helpful for other developers who want to clone a Gecko repo that is smaller than gecko-dev and/or use git-cinnabar to interact with a Mercurial repo.