extend network protocol to stop clients from locking servers now all repositories have capabilities slot, tuple with list of names. if 'unbundle' capability present, repo supports push where client does not need to lock server. repository classes that have unbundle capability also have unbundle method. implemented for ssh now, will be base for push over http. unbundle protocol acts this way. server tells client what heads it has during normal negotiate step. client starts unbundle by repeat server's heads back to it. if server has new heads, abort immediately. otherwise, transfer changes to server. once data transferred, server locks and checks heads again. if heads same, changes can be added. else someone else added heads, and server aborts. if client wants to force server to add heads, sends special heads list of 'force'.

#!/bin/sh
#
# Corrupt an hg repo with a pull started during an aborted commit
#

# Create two repos, so that one of them can pull from the other one.
hg init source
cd source
touch foo
hg add foo
hg ci -m 'add foo'
hg clone . ../corrupted
echo >> foo
hg ci -m 'change foo'

# Add a hook to wait 5 seconds and then abort the commit
cd ../corrupted
echo '[hooks]' >> .hg/hgrc
echo 'pretxncommit = sleep 5; exit 1' >> .hg/hgrc

# start a commit...
touch bar
hg add bar
hg ci -m 'add bar' &

# ... and start a pull while the commit is still running
sleep 1
hg pull ../source 2>/dev/null

# see what happened
wait
hg verify