diff -r f3f4d8537b11 -r aee94f0a36cd mercurial/context.py
--- a/mercurial/context.py	Wed Oct 10 00:49:30 2018 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/context.py	Wed Oct 10 00:50:34 2018 +0200
@@ -780,6 +780,11 @@
 
         if toprev is not None:
             return self._adjustlinkrev(toprev, inclusive=True)
+        elif r'_descendantrev' in attrs:
+            introrev = self._adjustlinkrev(self._descendantrev)
+            # be nice and cache the result of the computation
+            self._changeid = introrev
+            return introrev
         else:
             return self.linkrev()