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
echo foo > a
hg add a
hg commit -m "1" -d "1000000 0"
hg verify
chmod -r .hg/store/data/a.i
hg verify 2>/dev/null || echo verify failed
chmod +r .hg/store/data/a.i
hg verify 2>/dev/null || echo verify failed
chmod -w .hg/store/data/a.i
echo barber > a
hg commit -m "2" -d "1000000 0" 2>/dev/null || echo commit failed