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

hg init a
cd a
hg init b
echo x > b/x
echo '# should print nothing'
hg st
echo '# should print ? b/x'
hg st b/x

hg add b/x

echo '# should print A b/x'
hg st
echo '# should forget b/x'
hg revert --all
echo '# should print nothing'
hg st b