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.

adding a
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
adding b
pushing to ../a
abort: could not lock repository ../a: Permission denied