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

mkdir a
cd a
hg init
echo a > a
hg add a
hg commit -m test -d '0 0'

# Default operation
hg clone . ../b
cd ../b
cat a
hg verify

# No update
hg clone -U . ../c
cd ../c
cat a 2>/dev/null || echo "a not present"
hg verify

# Default destination
mkdir ../d
cd ../d
hg clone ../a
cd a
hg cat a