new file mode 100755
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test-empty-dir
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+hg init
+echo 123 > a
+hg add a
+hg commit -t "first" -u test -d "0 0" a
+mkdir sub
+echo 321 > sub/b
+hg add sub/b
+hg commit -t "second" -u test -d "0 0" sub/b
+cat sub/b
+hg co 0
+cat sub/b
+ls sub
+
+true