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
# http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/bts/issue433

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

hg parents -r 0 doesnotexist
true