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
echo a > a
hg add a
hg commit -m "test" -d "1000000 0"
hg verify
hg parents
hg status
hg rollback
hg verify
hg parents
hg status