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.

adding a
adding b
copy .hg/patches to .hg/patches.1
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
M b
a
b
merging with queue at: .hg/patches.1
applying rm_a
Now at: rm_a
b
Patch queue now empty