Dealing with repository corruption in one cvs file

Hi, I'm trying to convert a repository to subversion, and have one corrupted
file from the CVS repository.

Before a few days ago, I knew *nothing* about rcs file format, and I still
don't know much about them.

The original error I ran into was this (just removing the exact filename,
even though I realize it doesn't really give away any info):

ERROR: './MYFILENAME.c,v' has no deltatext section
for revision 1.8
ERROR: './MYFILENAME.c,v' has no deltatext section
for revision 1.7
ERROR: './MYFILENAME.c,v' has no deltatext section
for revision 1.6
ERROR: './MYFILENAME.c,v' has no deltatext section
for revision 1.5
ERROR: './MYFILENAME.c,v' has no deltatext section
for revision 1.4
ERROR: './MYFILENAME.c,v' has no deltatext section
for revision 1.3
ERROR: './MYFILENAME.c,v' has no deltatext section
for revision 1.2
ERROR: './MYFILENAME.c,v' has no deltatext section
for revision 1.1

My *original* attempt at fixing it was adding this to the end of the file
---
1.8
log
@DUMMY FAKE ENTRY
@
text
@#error DUMMY FAKE ENTRY DUE TO REPOSITORY CORRUPTION
@
---
and so on through 1.1

That satisfied rlog, IIRC, but then gave another error during checkout.

With some help from someone else, the latest attempt was to bsaically remove
the #error part and the additions were like this
1.8
log
@DUMMY FAKE ENTRY
@
text
@@

He was able to check out manually, but for me, the co still failed:

ERROR: The command 'co -q -x,v -p1.1 ./MYFILENAME.c,v' failed with exit status=1
and the following output:
co: ./MYFILENAME.c,v:7948: edit script ends prematurely
co aborted

So I guess I'm asking for some more ideas about how to add fake entries to 
the end so I can do a full conversion (with *known* corruption for the very
early versions of that file).

Or else, how can I ignore just those versions of the file in the upgrade,
but keep all of the rest of the tags/branches?

Basically, I want to convert as much as possible...  Thanks.

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