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

mkdir t
cd t

hg init
mkdir src
echo a > src/a.c
hg ci -Ama -d "10000000 0"

hg mv src source
hg ci -Ammove -d "1000000 0"

hg co -C 0
echo new > src/a.c
echo compiled > src/a.o
hg ci -mupdate -d "1000000 0"

hg st

hg merge

hg st