dirstate incorrectly updated, modified files not shown

[Tom Karzes]

We've been seeing a bug in which "hg status", "hg commit", etc. are ignoring
some locally modified files.  I believe this is due to .hg/dirstate having
been incorrectly updated to show their new modified times, sizes, etc., even
though they have been changed since they were last updated from the
repository.  You can "fix" the problem by touching the files that have been
changed, which causes Mercurial to actually look at their contents to
determine if they've been modified, but the problem is that you often don't
know when you need to do this.

The only thing out of the ordinary that we've been doing is using an
extension that operates on multiple repositories at once (not the forest
extension).  It will sometimes have multiple live repo classes, switching
between one and another without changing the current working directory.  But
it does not attempt to do any direct repository manipulation - it goes
through the normal repo and command interfaces.

Has anyone else encountered this problem?  It seems to arise quite often for
us, but it has proven to be difficult to deterministically reproduce.

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