Some reordering and watching for exceptions? Yeah, that should do the job.

should be able to do something similar to what I just did to qnew in ce10a2f22258 ?

I'd like to add that this has made a bunch of the Mozilla people lose work in
the form of patches that got truncated, so a fix would be nice.

Our dev team has a pretxncommit hook. Whenever my new code breaks the hook,
qrefresh leaves a corrupted dirstate.

Actually, you only have a corrupted dirstate (in particular, just the recorded
parents), and not a corrupted repository (hg verify is quite happy). That can be
fixed with hg debugrebuildstate -r tip.

(workaround exists -> degrading to bug, adding mq folks to nosy)

I made the mistake of control-C'ing an hg qrefresh using Mercurial 1.0.1, and
now I have a corrupted repository:

$ hg diff
abort: unknown revision '19ceb0cd57294d2746a7c8ef29d1a7426a3a5f5f'!

Repo at:

http://trollied.org/~movement/virt-convert.tar.bz2