mercurial/peer.py

context.status: move manifest caching trick to _buildstatus()

In basectx._buildstatus(), we read the manifests for the two revisions
being compared. For "caching reasons" unknown to me, it is better to
read the earlier manifest first, which basectx._prestatus() takes care
of. However, if the 'self' context is a committablectx and the 'other'
context is the parent of the working directory (as in the very common
case of plain "hg status"), there is no need to read any manifests at
all -- all that's needed is the dirstate status. To avoid reading the
manifests, _prestatus() is overridden in committablectx and avoids
calling its super method, and _buildstatus() calls its super method
only if the 'other' context is not the parent of the working
directory.

It seems easier to follow what's happening if we move the pre-fetching
to _buildstatus() just before the place where the manifests are
fetched. We just need to add an extra check that the revision is not
None to handle the case that was previously handled by subclass
overriding. That also makes it safe for committablectx._prestatus() to
call its parent, although the latter now becomes empty, so we won't
bother.

# peer.py - repository base classes for mercurial
#
# Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
# Copyright 2006 Vadim Gelfer <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

from i18n import _
import error

class peerrepository(object):

    def capable(self, name):
        '''tell whether repo supports named capability.
        return False if not supported.
        if boolean capability, return True.
        if string capability, return string.'''
        caps = self._capabilities()
        if name in caps:
            return True
        name_eq = name + '='
        for cap in caps:
            if cap.startswith(name_eq):
                return cap[len(name_eq):]
        return False

    def requirecap(self, name, purpose):
        '''raise an exception if the given capability is not present'''
        if not self.capable(name):
            raise error.CapabilityError(
                _('cannot %s; remote repository does not '
                  'support the %r capability') % (purpose, name))

    def local(self):
        '''return peer as a localrepo, or None'''
        return None

    def peer(self):
        return self

    def canpush(self):
        return True

    def close(self):
        pass