add dirstate._dirtypl variable Theoretically, it's possible to forget modified dirstate parents by doing: dirstate.invalidate() dirstate.setparents(p1, p2) dirstate._map The final access to _map should call _read(), which will unconditionally overwrite dirstate._pl. This doesn't actually happen right now because invalidate accidentally ends up rebuilding dirstate._map.

#!/bin/sh
# a test for issue586

hg init a
cd a
echo a > a
hg ci -Ama

hg init ../b
cd ../b
echo b > b
hg ci -Amb

hg pull -f ../a
hg merge
hg rm -f a
hg ci -Amc

hg st -A