# HG changeset patch
# User Siddharth Agarwal <sid0@fb.com>
# Date 1447797330 28800
# Node ID 2ddc92bae4a719da39da1c3bbbb31c83846675ab
# Parent  11b1832db8ae6e98474e4c21556a33518dfe3842
mergestate: add a constructor that reads state from disk

At the moment it's the same as just creating a new mergestate, but we'll soon
move the _read call out of __init__ and in here.

diff -r 11b1832db8ae -r 2ddc92bae4a7 mercurial/merge.py
--- a/mercurial/merge.py	Tue Nov 17 17:04:53 2015 -0800
+++ b/mercurial/merge.py	Tue Nov 17 13:55:30 2015 -0800
@@ -83,6 +83,12 @@
         ms.reset(node, other)
         return ms
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def read(repo):
+        """Initialize the merge state, reading it from disk."""
+        ms = mergestate(repo)
+        return ms
+
     def __init__(self, repo):
         self._repo = repo
         self._dirty = False