Noted that this original contribution comes
without history.
diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index 85a01a0..fdc5418 100644
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -4,4 +4,6 @@
The source was originally imported by;
-git svn clone http://svn.apache.org/hadoop/common/tags/release-0.23.4/hadoop-mapreduce-project/src/contrib/eclipse-plugin/
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+git svn clone http://svn.apache.org/hadoop/common/tags/release-0.23.4/hadoop-mapreduce-project/src/contrib/eclipse-plugin/
+
+This clone did not bring the history with it from the svn repo, so to see the history of these files, you will need to refer to Hadoop's svn repository.
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