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

hg init
echo a > a
hg ci -Am t

hg mv a b
hg ci -Am t1
hg debugrename b

hg mv b a
hg ci -Am t2
hg debugrename a

echo % test with --rev
hg debugrename --rev 1 b