hgweb: break templater -> templater circular reference The problem were some functions passed in the "defaults" argument during the templater creation which use "self.t" directly. This creates the cycle: hgweb object -> templater object -> defaults dict -> footer function -> hgweb object Instead of completely avoding the cycle, we break it after using the templater.

#!/bin/sh

hg init
touch a
hg add a
hg ci -m "a" -d "1000000 0"

echo 123 > b
hg add b
hg diff --nodates

hg diff --nodates -r tip

echo foo > a
hg diff --nodates

hg diff -r ""
hg diff -r tip -r ""

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