Instead of retrying to resolve it in the function and blocking for a
long time, return a TryAgain status and let the caller retry it later if
necessary.
This is a verbatim copy of the files at that stage of the repository that was
built from the CVS import. It allows future development to see a bit of recent
history, but without carrying around the baggage going back to 1997. If that
is really required, git grafts can be used.
