I ran into this trying to migrate a work-in-progress workspace to mercurial.
Webrev in: http://cr.opensolaris.org/~sommerfe/onnv-scm.10/index.html BTW, I added "set -x" around the invocations of "hg add" for educational purposes. I suspect (haven't yet confirmed) that renames in usr/closed won't work either for essentially the same reason. - Bill