Corrupt an hg repo with a pull started during an aborted commit Create two repos, so that one of them can pull from the other one. $ hg init source $ cd source $ touch foo $ hg add foo $ hg ci -m 'add foo' $ hg clone . ../corrupted updating to branch default 1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved $ echo >> foo $ hg ci -m 'change foo' Add a hook to wait 5 seconds and then abort the commit $ cd ../corrupted $ echo "[hooks]" >> .hg/hgrc $ echo 'pretxncommit = sh -c "sleep 5; exit 1"' >> .hg/hgrc start a commit... $ touch bar $ hg add bar $ hg ci -m 'add bar' & ... and start a pull while the commit is still running $ sleep 1 $ hg pull ../source 2>/dev/null pulling from ../source transaction abort! rollback completed abort: pretxncommit hook exited with status 1 searching for changes adding changesets adding manifests adding file changes added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files new changesets 52998019f625 (run 'hg update' to get a working copy) see what happened $ wait $ hg verify -q $ cd ..