# HG changeset patch
# User Greg Ward <greg-hg@gerg.ca>
# Date 2009-07-22 00:31:45
# Node ID 8a4da138855324ebdaa41410c0500d5b8768cbd4
# Parent  3f650f6aa130211271c4bbb22af942ee6356aa01

transaction: document close(), abort() methods

diff --git a/mercurial/transaction.py b/mercurial/transaction.py
--- a/mercurial/transaction.py
+++ b/mercurial/transaction.py
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ class transaction(object):
 
     @active
     def close(self):
+        '''commit the transaction'''
         self.count -= 1
         if self.count != 0:
             return
@@ -131,6 +132,9 @@ class transaction(object):
 
     @active
     def abort(self):
+        '''abort the transaction (generally called on error, or when the
+        transaction is not explicitly committed before going out of
+        scope)'''
         self._abort()
 
     def _abort(self):