Ok, tried the above command with --use-cvs, but it still barfs on pass 8:
----- pass 8 -----
Creating new repository '/var/lib/svn/repos'
Starting Subversion Repository.
Starting Subversion commit 1 / 24823
Starting Subversion commit 2 / 24823
ERROR: The command 'cvs -q -R co -r1.1 -p -kk 'CVSROOT/commitinfo'' failed with exit status: 256
and the following output:
cvs: WARNING: Read-only repository access mode selected via `cvs -R'.
Using this option to access a repository which some users write to may cause intermittent sandbox corruption.
cvs [checkout aborted]: invalid change text in /home/ncarroll/tmp/t/cvsroot/CVSROOT/commitinfo,v
