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+++ b/components/meta-packages/history/README	Wed Mar 09 16:26:11 2016 -0800
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+See $(WS)/doc/packaging.txt for information about the history file.
+
+To sort the history file into the canonical ordering, use:
+env LC_COLLATE=C sort -t @ -k 1,1 history
+
+The other *.p5m here are history entries more complex than the simple
+one-to-one mapping of the history file allows for.