Your Code as a Crime Scene: first usage of maat fails (27)

Attempting to run
maat -l maat_evo.log -c git -a summary1 results in errors.

Invalid argument:  java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: input: format[d804759] Adam Petersen 2013-09-24 Documented tree map visualizations
, reason: Parse error at line 1, column 1:
format[d804759] Adam Petersen 2013-09-24 Documented tree map visualizations
^
Expected:
[

This is Code Maat, a program used to collect statistics from a VCS.
Version: 1.0-SNAPSHOT

This appears due to an inability to parse the word format at the beginning of several lines of maat_evo.log.