Feature request: "Surrogate" repository root for $Header$ and $Source$ keyword expansion?

So in working with keyword expansion, the $Source$ and $Header$
keywords are a pain, since they include the full path to the current
file (in whatever environment you are doing the conversion). This
certainly follows the behavior of this keyword in RCS, but if I'm
migrating a public repository that happened to have made the
(unfortunate; but I'll skip the rant) decision to use keyword
expansion (especially with these keywords) at some point, it doesn't
make sense to include *my* information in the new (git or svn)
history. Of course, due to this behavior, it's not possible to
replicate a CVS history perfectly (since CVS would do this expansion
for you on checkout), but it would be nice to have a user-configurable
"neutral" expansion that could be used in history in place of the
*actual* repository root.

E.g., is it reasonable to change

  def source(self):
    project = self.cvs_rev.cvs_file.project
    return '%s/%s%s,v' % (
        project.cvs_repository_root,
        project.cvs_module,
        self.cvs_rev.cvs_file.cvs_path,
        )

in keyword_expander.py to something like

  def source(self):
    project = self.cvs_rev.cvs_file.project
    return '%s/%s%s,v' % (
        project.cvs_surrogate_root or project.cvs_repository_root,
        project.cvs_module,
        self.cvs_rev.cvs_file.cvs_path,
        )

(of course, with the additional config to set
project.cvs_surrogate_root)? I could try to contribute a patch if this
would be generally useful; otherwise I'll just solve this with git
filter-branch.

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