eol: make sure we always release the wlock when writing cache If any exception were to happen after we acquired the wlock, we could leave it unreleased. We move the wlock release in a 'finally:' close as it should be.

pathencode: use assert() for PyBytes_Check() This should have been added in a8c948ee3668. I sent the patch to the list prematurely.

merge: clarify warning for (not) merging flags without ancestor Give hints why it can't merge and what it will do instead.

merge: only show "cannot merge flags for %s" warning if flags are different

tests: add test coverage of merging x flag without ancestor It is more noisy than necessary - we will fix that later.

dirs: document Py_SIZE weirdness Assigning to what looks like a function is clown shoes. Document that it is a macro referring to a struct member.