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.

adding a
marked working directory as branch b
adding b
0 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
fast-forward
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
bogus fast-forward should fail
abort: there is nothing to merge, just use 'hg update' or look at 'hg heads'
done