Re: Clarifying "invalid tag signature file" error message from git filter-branch (and others)

>>> What tool was used to convert this repository to git? It should be corrected
>>> to produce valid annotated tags. Especially if it is a tool within git.
>> I don't know, Jim Meyering will know though, so I CC'ed him.
> 
> I used parsecvs, probably with git-master from the date of
> the initial conversion (check the archives for actual date).
> That was long enough ago that it was almost certainly before
> git-mktag learned to be more strict about its inputs.
> 
> James, since you're about to rewrite the history, you may want to
> start that process from a freshly-cvs-to-git-converted repository.
> 
> I'm not very happy about using cvsparse (considering it's not
> really being maintained, afaik), so if the git crowd
> can recommend something better, I'm all ears.