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 -Ama -d'0 0'
mkdir b
echo a > b/a
hg ci -Amb -d'1 0'
hg manifest
hg manifest -v
hg manifest --debug
hg manifest -r 0
hg manifest -r 1
hg manifest -r tip

echo % should fail
hg manifest -r 2
hg manifest -r tip tip

hg manifest tip