diff --git a/mercurial/context.py b/mercurial/context.py
--- a/mercurial/context.py
+++ b/mercurial/context.py
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@
 
         Only non-public and non-obsolete changesets may be divergent.
         """
-        return self.rev() in obsmod.getrevs(self._repo, 'divergent')
+        return self.rev() in obsmod.getrevs(self._repo, 'contentdivergent')
 
     def troubled(self):
         msg = ("'context.troubled' is deprecated, "
diff --git a/mercurial/obsolete.py b/mercurial/obsolete.py
--- a/mercurial/obsolete.py
+++ b/mercurial/obsolete.py
@@ -968,6 +968,14 @@
 
 @cachefor('divergent')
 def _computedivergentset(repo):
+    msg = ("'divergent' volatile set is deprecated, "
+           "use 'contentdivergent'")
+    repo.ui.deprecwarn(msg, '4.4')
+
+    return _computecontentdivergentset(repo)
+
+@cachefor('contentdivergent')
+def _computecontentdivergentset(repo):
     """the set of rev that compete to be the final successors of some revision.
     """
     divergent = set()
diff --git a/mercurial/revset.py b/mercurial/revset.py
--- a/mercurial/revset.py
+++ b/mercurial/revset.py
@@ -732,8 +732,8 @@
     """
     # i18n: "contentdivergent" is a keyword
     getargs(x, 0, 0, _("contentdivergent takes no arguments"))
-    divergent = obsmod.getrevs(repo, 'divergent')
-    return subset & divergent
+    contentdivergent = obsmod.getrevs(repo, 'contentdivergent')
+    return subset & contentdivergent
 
 @predicate('extinct()', safe=True)
 def extinct(repo, subset, x):