when recontructing the branches i noticed a problem with the various branches in cvs missing files. ie, the contents at the tag pre75to767split should be identical for Pike/7.6 and Pike/7.7 but they are not.
this happens in all branches, after the split, some files seem to have gotten lost.
They have been deliberately deleted. Thus, reconstruction requires additional information about when this happened etc. I have already done this work for the subversion import, so I recommend you just convert the subversion repository instead, as it already has correct (more or less) history.