merge: separate out "both created" cases When 'f' is not in 'ma', 'a' will be 'nullid' and all the if/elif conditions that check whether some one nodeid is equal to 'a' will fail, and the else-clause will instead apply. We can make that more explicit by creating a separate 'm' action for the case where 'a' is 'nullid'. While it does mean copying some code, perhaps it makes it a little clearer which codepaths are possible, and which cases the "Note:" in the code refers to. It also lets us make the debug action messages a little more specific.

#require execbit

  $ hg init
  $ echo a > a
  $ hg ci -Am'not executable'
  adding a

  $ chmod +x a
  $ hg ci -m'executable'
  $ hg id
  79abf14474dc tip

Make sure we notice the change of mode if the cached size == -1:

  $ hg rm a
  $ hg revert -r 0 a
  $ hg debugstate
  n   0         -1 unset               a
  $ hg status
  M a

  $ hg up 0
  1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  $ hg id
  d69afc33ff8a
  $ test -x a && echo executable -- bad || echo not executable -- good
  not executable -- good