copy/rename to a removed destination file When the destination of a copy or rename operation has been marked for removal, we need to restore it before we overwrite it with the new content. This also handles the case of idempotent renames, i.e. hg rename "a" "b" hg rename "b" "a"

#!/bin/sh
#
mkdir t
cd t
hg init
echo 0 > a
echo 0 > b
hg ci -A -m m -d "0 0"
touch nottracked
hg locate a
hg locate NONEXISTENT
hg locate
hg rm a
hg ci -m m -d "0 0"
hg locate a
hg locate NONEXISTENT
hg locate
hg locate -r 0 a
hg locate -r 0 NONEXISTENT
hg locate -r 0