Corrupt an hg repo with two pulls. create one repo with a long history $ hg init source1 $ cd source1 $ touch foo $ hg add foo $ for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do > echo $i >> foo > hg ci -m $i > done $ cd .. create one repo with a shorter history $ hg clone -r 0 source1 source2 adding changesets adding manifests adding file changes added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files new changesets 495a0ec48aaf updating to branch default 1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved $ cd source2 $ echo a >> foo $ hg ci -m a $ cd .. create a third repo to pull both other repos into it $ hg init corrupted $ cd corrupted use a hook to make the second pull start while the first one is still running $ echo '[hooks]' >> .hg/hgrc $ echo 'prechangegroup = sleep 5' >> .hg/hgrc start a pull... $ hg pull ../source1 > pull.out 2>&1 & ... and start another pull before the first one has finished $ sleep 1 $ hg pull ../source2 2>/dev/null pulling from ../source2 searching for changes adding changesets adding manifests adding file changes added 1 changesets with 1 changes to 1 files (+1 heads) new changesets ca3c05af513e (run 'hg heads' to see heads, 'hg merge' to merge) $ cat pull.out pulling from ../source1 requesting all changes adding changesets adding manifests adding file changes added 10 changesets with 10 changes to 1 files new changesets 495a0ec48aaf:1e7b6c812ca8 (run 'hg update' to get a working copy) see the result $ wait $ hg verify -q $ cd ..