#!/usr/bin/python from mercurial.ui import ui from mercurial.localrepo import localrepository from mercurial.commands import add, commit, status u = ui() print '% creating repo' repo = localrepository(u, '.', create=True) f = open('test.py', 'w') try: f.write('foo\n') finally: f.close print '% add and commit' add(u, repo, 'test.py') commit(u, repo, message='*') status(u, repo, clean=True) print '% change' f = open('test.py', 'w') try: f.write('bar\n') finally: f.close() # this would return clean instead of changed before the fix status(u, repo, clean=True, modified=True)