diff --git a/.cvsignore b/.cvsignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 40caffa..0000000
--- a/.cvsignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-# CVS default ignores begin
-tags
-TAGS
-.make.state
-.nse_depinfo
-*~
-#*
-.#*
-,*
-_$*
-*$
-*.old
-*.bak
-*.BAK
-*.orig
-*.rej
-.del-*
-*.a
-*.olb
-*.o
-*.obj
-*.so
-*.exe
-*.Z
-*.elc
-*.ln
-core
-# CVS default ignores end
diff --git a/README b/README
index 00fcde6..484af36 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,2 +1,9 @@
+[[This repository was converted from CVS to Git on 2014-04-09 by
+Eric J. Bowersox <erbo@erbosoft.com>. This was an attempted rewrite of the
+code in the venice-main-classic respository, is almost certainly not usable
+in a circa-2014 Java environment, and is included here for historical reasons.]]
+
+===============================================================================
+
 This branch of the code is not really usable yet.  New instructions will
 be posted when it is.