Remove useless variable assignments in util.opener. The original idea might have been to prevent circular references, but as this assignment would have created another reference, this makes no difference.

#!/bin/sh
# a test for issue586

hg init a
cd a
echo a > a
hg ci -Ama

hg init ../b
cd ../b
echo b > b
hg ci -Amb

hg pull -f ../a
hg merge
hg rm -f a
hg ci -Amc

hg st -A