CONTRIBUTING
author Boris Feld <boris.feld@octobus.net>
Fri, 24 Nov 2017 21:51:41 -0500
branchstable
changeset 34987 96dcc78468e3
parent 30084 a492610a2fc1
permissions -rw-r--r--
tr-summary: keep a weakref to the unfiltered repository Repoview can have a different life cycle, causing issue in some corner cases. The particular instance that revealed this comes from localpeer. The localpeer hold a reference to the unfiltered repository, but calling 'local()' will create an on-demand 'visible' repoview. That repoview can be garbaged collected any time. Here is a simplified step by step reproduction:: 1) tr = peer.local().transaction('foo') 2) tr.close() After (1), the repoview object is garbage collected, so weakref used in (2) point to nothing. Thanks to Sean Farley for helping raising and debugging this issue.

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