I found a bug in the git repository:
git blame README-CVS gives the following output at the end:
9eb55816 (Mikael Brandström 2002-04-06 20:49:08 +0000 250) o A descripti 9eb55816 (Mikael Brandström 2002-04-06 20:49:08 +0000 251) o If you know 9eb55816 (Mikael Brandström 2002-04-06 20:49:08 +0000 252) variables a 9eb55816 (Mikael Brandström 2002-04-06 20:49:08 +0000 253) o Or, if you 9eb55816 (Mikael Brandström 2002-04-06 20:49:08 +0000 254) bugfix alon
but these lines are older, and were copied from the file README. Even CVS gets the annotations correct here, because in fact the ,v file was copied:
1.9 (nilsson 16-Oct-01): o A description of what it is that bugs and when. 1.11 (jhs 15-Feb-02): o If you know how, then also give us a backtrace and dump of vital 1.10 (nilsson 05-Nov-01): variables at the point of crash. 1.11 (jhs 15-Feb-02): o Or, if you found the error and corrected it, just send us the 1.10 (nilsson 05-Nov-01): bugfix along with a description of what you did and why.
(OTOH, the CVS repository will of course give you incorrect results if you check out an old version of Pike, as README-CVS will appear alongside README even before it shoud exist.)