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dirstate: add a comment about a racy piece of code during updates

This is a bit that is not really correct but works "fine" in practice. Let us
write the details down so that people stop wondering how that logic might be
correct… It is not.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11781

#!/usr/bin/env python3
#
# A portable replacement for 'seq'
#
# Usage:
#   seq STOP              [1, STOP] stepping by 1
#   seq START STOP        [START, STOP] stepping by 1
#   seq START STEP STOP   [START, STOP] stepping by STEP

from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function
import os
import sys

try:
    import msvcrt

    msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdin.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
    msvcrt.setmode(sys.stdout.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
    msvcrt.setmode(sys.stderr.fileno(), os.O_BINARY)
except ImportError:
    pass

if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
    xrange = range

start = 1
if len(sys.argv) > 2:
    start = int(sys.argv[1])

step = 1
if len(sys.argv) > 3:
    step = int(sys.argv[2])

stop = int(sys.argv[-1]) + 1

for i in xrange(start, stop, step):
    print(i)