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

mkdir t
cd t
hg init
echo a > a
hg ci -Ama -d '1000000000 0'
echo b > b
hg branch b
hg ci -Amb -d '1000000000 0'
hg co -C 0

echo fast-forward
hg merge b
hg ci -Ammerge -d '1000000000 0'

echo bogus fast-forward should fail
hg merge b

echo done