diff --git a/hgext/remotefilelog/__init__.py b/hgext/remotefilelog/__init__.py
--- a/hgext/remotefilelog/__init__.py
+++ b/hgext/remotefilelog/__init__.py
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@
 
 # prefetch files before update
 def applyupdates(
-    orig, repo, actions, wctx, mctx, overwrite, wantfiledata, labels=None
+    orig, repo, actions, wctx, mctx, overwrite, wantfiledata, **opts
 ):
     if isenabled(repo):
         manifest = mctx.manifest()
@@ -488,9 +488,7 @@
             files.append((f, hex(manifest[f])))
         # batch fetch the needed files from the server
         repo.fileservice.prefetch(files)
-    return orig(
-        repo, actions, wctx, mctx, overwrite, wantfiledata, labels=labels
-    )
+    return orig(repo, actions, wctx, mctx, overwrite, wantfiledata, **opts)
 
 
 # Prefetch merge checkunknownfiles
diff --git a/mercurial/merge.py b/mercurial/merge.py
--- a/mercurial/merge.py
+++ b/mercurial/merge.py
@@ -1200,12 +1200,21 @@
 
 
 def applyupdates(
-    repo, actions, wctx, mctx, overwrite, wantfiledata, labels=None
+    repo,
+    actions,
+    wctx,
+    mctx,
+    overwrite,
+    wantfiledata,
+    labels=None,
+    commitinfo=None,
 ):
     """apply the merge action list to the working directory
 
     wctx is the working copy context
     mctx is the context to be merged into the working copy
+    commitinfo is a mapping of information which needs to be stored somewhere
+               (probably mergestate) so that it can be used at commit time.
 
     Return a tuple of (counts, filedata), where counts is a tuple
     (updated, merged, removed, unresolved) that describes how many
@@ -1220,6 +1229,15 @@
         repo, wctx.p1().node(), mctx.node(), labels
     )
 
+    if commitinfo is None:
+        commitinfo = {}
+
+    for f, op in pycompat.iteritems(commitinfo):
+        # the other side of filenode was choosen while merging, store this in
+        # mergestate so that it can be reused on commit
+        if op == b'other':
+            ms.addmergedother(f)
+
     # add ACTION_GET_OTHER_AND_STORE to mergestate
     for e in actions[mergestatemod.ACTION_GET_OTHER_AND_STORE]:
         ms.addmergedother(e[0])
@@ -1892,7 +1910,14 @@
 
         wantfiledata = updatedirstate and not branchmerge
         stats, getfiledata = applyupdates(
-            repo, actions, wc, p2, overwrite, wantfiledata, labels=labels
+            repo,
+            actions,
+            wc,
+            p2,
+            overwrite,
+            wantfiledata,
+            labels=labels,
+            commitinfo=commitinfo,
         )
 
         if updatedirstate: