Use nullrev+count instead of count-1 in a newly introduced expression.
Before that repo.changelog.tip() was used, but this yields a node.
Of course many more places should be changed like this, this was just done
as an example.
#!/bin/sh
hg init
echo 123 > a
hg add a
hg commit -m "first" -d "1000000 0" a
mkdir sub
echo 321 > sub/b
hg add sub/b
hg commit -m "second" -d "1000000 0" sub/b
cat sub/b
hg co 0
cat sub/b 2>/dev/null || echo "sub/b not present"
test -d sub || echo "sub not present"
true