I have a parsecvs patch that fixes the missing files for my imports, it seems related to the errors “Warning: %s too late date through branch %s\n” as t dates are off somehow by a good amount. (The patch just continues rather than setting the array item to null and fixes a subsequent segfault when prev->file is NULL). Unfortunately Zend/zend_language_scanner.c is still out of sync (.l seems fine).

We importet all tags. You might want to clone the complete tree and remove tags you don’t need.

In fact I tried to import it into Mercurial but the mecurial import of the CVS was not as good as the git stuff. I don’t know if there is something like ParseCVS for Mercurial, but the usuallt git-cvsimport, even it fails, made a better job than the HG import.
I suggest to clone the GIT repository of PHP and then import that into mecurial, which will result in a good working copy in HG.

I am wondering if someone tried to import PHP into Bazaar or Mercurial (like Mozilla did), the Python 4G SCMs have the advantage of being platform-independent…