In cbefa73a359814e6784a63f90b78c7afd39bc7d5, I introduced a new bug:
when a symlink points to a folder in commit A and to another folder
in commit B, while updating from A to B, Mercurial will try to use
removedir on this symlink, which will fail. This is a very bad bug,
since it basically renders symlinks to folders unusable in repos.
Added test case fails without a fix and passes with it.
This is a fix to an old problem when Mercurial got confused by an
untracked folder with the same name as one of the files in a commit
hg was trying to update to. It is pretty safe to remove this folder if
it is empty. Backing up an empty folder seems to go against Mercurial's
"don't track dirs" philosophy.