git fast-import problem converting from CVS with git 1.6.1 and cvs2svn 2.2.0

From: Kelly F. Hickel <kfh@mqsoftware.com>
Date: Jan 20, 2009, 15:46 UTC
Message-ID: <63BEA5E623E09F4D92233FB12A9F794302BC6851@emailmn.mqsoftware.com>

Hello all,

Back in June I had done a test convert of our CVS repo using git 1.5.5.1 and cvs2svn 2.2.0 that went reasonably well (although it takes nearly a week to finish!). Recently I wanted to try again with the latest versions of git and cvs2svn.

When I get to the final stage (running git fast-import to build the converted repo), I get the following output: cat ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-blob.dat ../cvs2svn-tmp/git-dump.dat | git fast-import fatal: Unsupported command: '. fast-import: dumping crash report to .git/fast_import_crash_19097

The crash is 18MB and I'd rather not post it, but the only bits that
seem somewhat interesting are:
fast-import crash report:
    fast-import process: 19097
    parent process     : 19095
    at Mon Jan 19 11:44:42 2009

fatal: Unsupported command: '.

Most Recent Commands Before Crash
---------------------------------
(...)
  reset refs/tags/T_9772
  from :1000007127
  reset refs/heads/TAG.FIXUP
  
  commit refs/heads/TAG.FIXUP
  mark :1000007128
  committer cvs2svn <cvs2svn> 1002043747 +0000
  data 88
* '.

Has anyone got any ideas how to resolve this?

Thanks,

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