context: call normal on the right object stable
authorSiddharth Agarwal <sid0@fb.com>
Fri, 01 Aug 2014 18:30:18 -0700
branchstable
changeset 21990 48e32c2c499b
parent 21975 8cab8a5006a5
child 21991 aca137619a45
context: call normal on the right object dirstate.normal is the method that marks files as unchanged/normal. Rev 20a30cd41d21 started caching dirstate.normal in order to improve performance. However, there was an error in the patch: taking the wlock, under some conditions depending on platform, can cause a new dirstate object to be created. Caching dirstate.normal before calling wlock would then cause the fixup calls below to be on the old dirstate object, effectively disappearing into the ether. On Unix and Unix-like OSes, the condition under which we create a new dirstate object is 'the dirstate file has been modified since the last time we opened it'. This happens pretty rarely, so the object is usually the same -- there's little impact. On Windows, the condition is 'always'. This means files in the lookup state are never marked normal, so the bug has a serious performance impact since all the files in the lookup state are re-read every time hg status is run.
mercurial/context.py
--- a/mercurial/context.py	Fri Aug 01 18:23:18 2014 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/context.py	Fri Aug 01 18:30:18 2014 -0700
@@ -1341,8 +1341,10 @@
             try:
                 # updating the dirstate is optional
                 # so we don't wait on the lock
+                # wlock can invalidate the dirstate, so cache normal _after_
+                # taking the lock
+                wlock = self._repo.wlock(False)
                 normal = self._repo.dirstate.normal
-                wlock = self._repo.wlock(False)
                 try:
                     for f in fixup:
                         normal(f)