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
# a test for issue586

hg init a
cd a
echo a > a
hg ci -Ama

hg init ../b
cd ../b
echo b > b
hg ci -Amb

hg pull -f ../a
hg merge
hg rm -f a
hg ci -Amc

hg st -A