http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/issue660 and: http://mercurial.selenic.com/bts/issue322 $ hg init $ echo a > a $ mkdir b $ echo b > b/b $ hg commit -A -m "a is file, b is dir" adding a adding b/b File replaced with directory: $ rm a $ mkdir a $ echo a > a/a Should fail - would corrupt dirstate: $ hg add a/a abort: file 'a' in dirstate clashes with 'a/a' [255] Removing shadow: $ hg rm --after a Should succeed - shadow removed: $ hg add a/a Directory replaced with file: $ rm -r b $ echo b > b Should fail - would corrupt dirstate: $ hg add b abort: directory 'b' already in dirstate [255] Removing shadow: $ hg rm --after b/b Should succeed - shadow removed: $ hg add b Look what we got: $ hg st A a/a A b R a R b/b Revert reintroducing shadow - should fail: $ rm -r a b $ hg revert b/b abort: file 'b' in dirstate clashes with 'b/b' [255] Revert all - should succeed: $ hg revert --all undeleting a forgetting a/a (glob) forgetting b undeleting b/b (glob) $ hg st Issue3423: $ hg forget a $ echo zed > a $ hg revert a $ hg st ? a.orig $ rm a.orig addremove: $ rm -r a b $ mkdir a $ echo a > a/a $ echo b > b $ hg addremove -s 0 removing a adding a/a adding b removing b/b $ hg st A a/a A b R a R b/b commit: $ hg ci -A -m "a is dir, b is file" $ hg st --all C a/a C b Long directory replaced with file: $ mkdir d $ mkdir d/d $ echo d > d/d/d $ hg commit -A -m "d is long directory" adding d/d/d $ rm -r d $ echo d > d Should fail - would corrupt dirstate: $ hg add d abort: directory 'd' already in dirstate [255] Removing shadow: $ hg rm --after d/d/d Should succeed - shadow removed: $ hg add d $ hg ci -md Update should work at least with clean working directory: $ rm -r a b d $ hg up -r 0 2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved $ hg st --all C a C b/b $ rm -r a b $ hg up -r 1 2 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved $ hg st --all C a/a C b