diff --git a/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-hg b/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-hg
index 2e4f7ca425..e0e68eff2c 100755
--- a/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-hg
+++ b/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-hg
@@ -621,6 +621,7 @@ def do_import(parser):
     if os.path.exists(path):
         print "feature import-marks=%s" % path
     print "feature export-marks=%s" % path
+    print "feature force"
     sys.stdout.flush()
 
     tmp = encoding.encoding
diff --git a/contrib/remote-helpers/test-hg.sh b/contrib/remote-helpers/test-hg.sh
index c54adb6fee..af27a0f65f 100755
--- a/contrib/remote-helpers/test-hg.sh
+++ b/contrib/remote-helpers/test-hg.sh
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ setup () {
 	(
 	echo "[ui]"
 	echo "username = H G Wells <wells@example.com>"
+	echo "[extensions]"
+	echo "mq ="
 	) >> "$HOME"/.hgrc
 }
 
@@ -161,4 +163,42 @@ test_expect_success 'authors' '
 	test_cmp expected actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'strip' '
+	test_when_finished "rm -rf hgrepo gitrepo" &&
+
+	(
+	hg init hgrepo &&
+	cd hgrepo &&
+
+	echo one >> content &&
+	hg add content &&
+	hg commit -m one &&
+
+	echo two >> content &&
+	hg commit -m two
+	) &&
+
+	git clone "hg::hgrepo" gitrepo &&
+
+	(
+	cd hgrepo &&
+	hg strip 1 &&
+
+	echo three >> content &&
+	hg commit -m three &&
+
+	echo four >> content &&
+	hg commit -m four
+	) &&
+
+	(
+	cd gitrepo &&
+	git fetch &&
+	git log --format="%s" origin/master > ../actual
+	) &&
+
+	hg -R hgrepo log --template "{desc}\n" > expected &&
+	test_cmp actual expected
+'
+
 test_done