hbisect.py: don't rely on __del__ to write the current state. This is yet another page of the "Thou shalt not do too much inside __del__ methods" book, in the "demandload and __del__ don't go well together" chapter. The bisect extension is broken in 0.9.1: $ hg bisect init $ hg bisect bad Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version mismatch?) Aborted (yes, I tripled checked my instalation to make sure the problem is not there) It's been broken since revision fe1689273f84 moved the import of the binascii module into a demandload. (In details: the first time that "hg bisect bad" (or good) is called, there are still no revisions saved in .hg/bisect/*, so bisect.__init__ doesn't call hg.bin on anything. So, when we reach __del__, the binascii module still hasn't been imported and we get that "nice" message above.)

#!/bin/sh
HG=hg
"$HG" init
mkdir b
echo 'Bouncy' >b/bouncy
echo 'tricycle' >b/vehicle
"$HG" add b/bouncy
"$HG" add b/vehicle
"$HG" commit -m 'Adding bouncy'
echo 'bouncy' >>b/bouncy
"$HG" commit -m 'Making it bouncier'
"$HG" update -C 0
echo 'stationary' >>b/vehicle
"$HG" commit -m 'Clarifying the vehicle.'
"$HG" update -C 1
chmod a-w b/vehicle
"$HG" merge 2 2>&1 | sed 's|^\(.*[ 	]\).*/\([^/]*/[^/]*/[^/]*\)$|\1\2|g'