add prechangegroup and pretxnchangegroup hooks. prechangegroup lets you stop push, pull or unbundle before it begins. pretxnchangegroup lets you inspect changegroup before transaction is committed, and roll back if you not like it.

#!/bin/sh

hg init
echo 123 > a
hg add a
hg commit -m "first" -d "0 0" a
mkdir sub
echo 321 > sub/b
hg add sub/b
hg commit -m "second" -d "0 0" sub/b
cat sub/b
hg co 0
cat sub/b
ls sub

true