dirstate: speed up read and write read: - single call to len(st) - fewer assignments for position tracking - don't split apart tuple from unpack - use a literal for the unpack spec write: - localize variables and functions - avoid copied function call - use % for string concatenation

#!/bin/sh

hg init
echo "nothing" > a
hg add a
hg commit -m ancestor -d "1000000 0"
echo "something" > a
hg commit -m branch1 -d "1000000 0"
hg co 0
echo "something else" > a
hg commit -m branch2 -d "1000000 0"
hg merge 1
hg id
cat a
hg status