stale journal.dirstate !!

[Sreedhar Govardhana]

Hi,

 I came across a situation that 'push' is failing due to a stale 
'journal.dirstate' file.  'verify'
doesn't show any issues and so is 'recover'.  I manually removed the 
file and did a push
from my child it went fine. But I am not sure about the consequences of 
this manual deletion.
Is it going to be a problem ?

Also, Can one of you please explain me, what are all the situations when 
journal.dirstate will
not removed ? And what might happened in our case ?

Let me know if you need any information.

Greatly appreciate your quick response,
~Sree