diff -r e5b2ee5157ae -r a115b5ee9c63 mercurial/subrepo.py
--- a/mercurial/subrepo.py	Sat Jul 30 23:41:10 2011 +0300
+++ b/mercurial/subrepo.py	Thu Jul 28 13:28:32 2011 -0400
@@ -606,7 +606,7 @@
             if item == 'external':
                 externals.append(path)
             if (item not in ('', 'normal', 'unversioned', 'external')
-                or props not in ('', 'none')):
+                or props not in ('', 'none', 'normal')):
                 changes.append(path)
         for path in changes:
             for ext in externals: