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
# test command parsing and dispatch

hg init a
cd a
echo a > a
hg ci -Ama -d '0 0'

echo "# missing arg"
hg cat

echo '% [defaults]'
hg cat a
cat > $HGRCPATH <<EOF
[defaults]
cat = -v
EOF
hg cat a

echo '% no repo'
cd ..
hg cat

exit 0