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.

EVERYTHING
diff -r ec612a6291f1 alpha/one
--- a/alpha/one
+++ b/alpha/one
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+1
diff -r ec612a6291f1 beta/two
--- a/beta/two
+++ b/beta/two
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+2
BETA ONLY
diff -r ec612a6291f1 beta/two
--- a/beta/two
+++ b/beta/two
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+2
INSIDE BETA
diff -r ec612a6291f1 beta/two
--- a/beta/two
+++ b/beta/two
@@ -0,0 +1,1 @@
+2