% initial svn import
Adding         projA/trunk
Adding         projA/branches
Adding         projA/tags

Committed revision 1.
% update svn repository
A    A/trunk
A    A/branches
A    A/tags
Checked out revision 1.
A         trunk/letter.txt
A         trunk/letter2.txt
A         trunk/letter3.txt
Adding         trunk/letter.txt
Adding         trunk/letter2.txt
Adding         trunk/letter3.txt
Transmitting file data ...
Committed revision 2.
% branch to old letters
A         branches/old
D         branches/old/letter3.txt
Adding         branches/old
Adding         branches/old/letter.txt
Adding         branches/old/letter2.txt
Deleting       branches/old/letter3.txt

Committed revision 3.
At revision 3.
% update trunk
Sending        trunk/letter.txt
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 4.
% update old branch
Sending        branches/old/letter2.txt
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 5.
% create a cross-branch revision
A         branches/old/letter3.txt
D         trunk/letter2.txt
Adding         branches/old/letter3.txt
Deleting       trunk/letter2.txt
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 6.
% update old branch again
Sending        branches/old/letter2.txt
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 7.
% update trunk again
Sending        trunk/letter.txt
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 8.
% convert trunk and branches
initializing destination A-hg repository
scanning source...
sorting...
converting...
8 init projA
7 hello
6 branch trunk, remove letter3
5 change letter
4 change letter2
3 move and update letter3.txt
2 move and update letter3.txt
1 change letter2 again
0 last change to letter
% branch again from a converted revision
Checked out revision 1.
A         branches/old2
Adding         branches/old2

Committed revision 9.
% convert again
scanning source...
sorting...
converting...
0 branch trunk@1 into old2
o  9 branch trunk@1 into old2 files:
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| o  8 last change to letter files: letter.txt
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| | o  7 change letter2 again files: letter2.txt
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| o |  6 move and update letter3.txt files: letter2.txt
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| | o  5 move and update letter3.txt files: letter3.txt
| | |
| | o  4 change letter2 files: letter2.txt
| | |
| o |  3 change letter files: letter.txt
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+---o  2 branch trunk, remove letter3 files: letter.txt letter2.txt
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| o  1 hello files: letter.txt letter2.txt letter3.txt
|/
o  0 init projA files:

old2                           9:
default                        8:
old                            7:
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