[Bug 5914] New: Directories in a subrepository not showing on status

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https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5914

            Bug ID: 5914
           Summary: Directories in a subrepository not showing on status
           Product: Mercurial
           Version: 4.5.3
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: bug
          Priority: wish
         Component: Mercurial
          Assignee: bugzilla at mercurial-scm.org
          Reporter: mantra_ at gmx.com
                CC: mercurial-devel at mercurial-scm.org

Mercurial doesn't show files that are in subdirectories, if those
subdirectories contain a repository themselves.

This leads to undesirable consequences.

E.g. I have a directory containing my project, and I want to start using
Mercurial to manage it. I run 'hg init' in the directory, then 'hg add *'. I
check with 'hg status' that the repository is up to date with respect to the
working copy, and run 'hg clone' somewhere else to make a copy.

However, if unknown to me someone else had created a repository inside a
subdirectory of the original project to track one small part of it, this
process will silently fail - I will have what I expect to be a full copy of the
project, but it won't include the subdirectory.

Steps to reproduce:

Directory structure:
  project_folder
    file_a
    subfolder
      file_b

Commands:
subfolder>hg init && hg add * && hg commit
project_folder>hg init && hg add * && hg commit
remote_place>hg clone project_folder

Expected result: remote_place contains a full copy of project_folder
Actual result:remote_place/project_folder doesn't contain subfolder

Not sure if this is by design or accidental, but if by design, it seems very 
counterintuitve.

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