convert: refactor sink initialisation, to remove hardcoding of hg
We also introduce options to explicitly set the source and destination
repository types.
Improve testing of corner cases a little.
#!/bin/sh
mkdir a
cd a
hg init
echo foo > b
hg add b
hg ci -m "b" -d "1000000 0"
chmod -w .hg/store
cd ..
hg clone a b
chmod +w a/.hg/store # let test clean up
cd b
hg verify