# HG changeset patch
# User Sean Farley <sean.michael.farley@gmail.com>
# Date 1383778927 21600
# Node ID 5b4f963d21ccb04ca3779adf20501031166c46aa
# Parent  20ef533ffb01cf419ca2cdb7129b813468a15ac0
merge: refactor initialization of variables in update

There is no code change here but this helps prepare for future commits that
will fix a bare update with obsolete markers.

diff -r 20ef533ffb01 -r 5b4f963d21cc mercurial/merge.py
--- a/mercurial/merge.py	Wed Nov 06 10:26:25 2013 -0600
+++ b/mercurial/merge.py	Wed Nov 06 17:02:07 2013 -0600
@@ -679,6 +679,12 @@
     wlock = repo.wlock()
     try:
         wc = repo[None]
+        pl = wc.parents()
+        p1 = pl[0]
+        pa = None
+        if ancestor:
+            pa = repo[ancestor]
+
         if node is None:
             # Here is where we should consider bookmarks, divergent bookmarks,
             # foreground changesets (successors), and tip of current branch;
@@ -691,11 +697,9 @@
                 else:
                     raise util.Abort(_("branch %s not found") % wc.branch())
         overwrite = force and not branchmerge
-        pl = wc.parents()
-        p1, p2 = pl[0], repo[node]
-        if ancestor:
-            pa = repo[ancestor]
-        else:
+
+        p2 = repo[node]
+        if pa is None:
             pa = p1.ancestor(p2)
 
         fp1, fp2, xp1, xp2 = p1.node(), p2.node(), str(p1), str(p2)