[PATCH] tr-summary: keep a weakref to the unfiltered repository

Boris Feld boris.feld at octobus.net
Sat Nov 25 16:39:32 EST 2017


Sorry that was meant for stable but I forget the flag, should I resend
it?

On Sat, 2017-11-25 at 16:35 -0500, Boris Feld wrote:
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Boris Feld <boris.feld at octobus.net>
> # Date 1511578301 18000
> #      Fri Nov 24 21:51:41 2017 -0500
> # Branch stable
> # Node ID a2eccde70ce65f9f0e8735e1bc8d51f58c8cdd71
> # Parent  02845f7441aff30bc01975a5881cabfa922c12d4
> # EXP-Topic callback-error
> # Available At https://bitbucket.org/octobus/mercurial-devel/
> #              hg pull https://bitbucket.org/octobus/mercurial-devel/
>  -r a2eccde70ce6
> 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.
> 
> diff --git a/mercurial/scmutil.py b/mercurial/scmutil.py
> --- a/mercurial/scmutil.py
> +++ b/mercurial/scmutil.py
> @@ -1233,9 +1233,17 @@ def registersummarycallback(repo, otr, t
>  
>      def reportsummary(func):
>          """decorator for report callbacks."""
> -        reporef = weakref.ref(repo)
> +        # The repoview life cycle is shorter than the one of the
> actual
> +        # underlying repository. So the filtered object can die
> before the
> +        # weakref is used leading to troubles. We keep a reference
> to the
> +        # unfiltered object and restore the filtering when
> retrieving the
> +        # repository through the weakref.
> +        filtername = repo.filtername
> +        reporef = weakref.ref(repo.unfiltered())
>          def wrapped(tr):
>              repo = reporef()
> +            if filtername:
> +                repo = repo.filtered(filtername)
>              func(repo, tr)
>          newcat = '%2i-txnreport' % len(categories)
>          otr.addpostclose(newcat, wrapped)


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