# HG changeset patch
# User Kyle Lippincott <spectral@google.com>
# Date 2018-08-09 00:07:27
# Node ID 0d032756e9bfa6c36d8dc484c95a787421d94df9
# Parent  b9f94d67ea732831cedc60de95698a0e6e5b1d06

dirstate: add comment on why we don't need to check if something is a dir/file

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4161

diff --git a/mercurial/dirstate.py b/mercurial/dirstate.py
--- a/mercurial/dirstate.py
+++ b/mercurial/dirstate.py
@@ -912,6 +912,11 @@ class dirstate(object):
                         continue
                     raise
                 for f, kind, st in entries:
+                    # If we needed to inspect any files, visitentries would have
+                    # been 'this' or 'all', and we would have set it to None
+                    # above. If we have visitentries populated here, we don't
+                    # care about any files in this directory, so no need to
+                    # check the type of `f`.
                     if visitentries and f not in visitentries:
                         continue
                     if normalizefile: