convert: clear the dirstate before a conversion, invalidate it afterwards Clearing it before the conversion protects us from whatever data were there (file copies in particular). Invalidating it after the conversion avoids writing a possibly inconsistent dirstate to disk.

#!/bin/sh

hg init

echo % should fail
hg add .hg/00changelog.i

mkdir a
echo a > a/a
hg ci -Ama
ln -s a b
echo b > a/b

echo % should fail
hg add b/b

echo % should succeed
hg add b

echo % should still fail - maybe
hg add b/b

exit 0