fancyopts: prevent mutation of the default value in customopts

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2937

mercurial/fancyopts.py

@@ -208,11 +208,18 b' class customopt(object):'
     __metaclass__ = abc.ABCMeta
 
     def __init__(self, defaultvalue):
-        self.defaultvalue = defaultvalue
+        self._defaultvalue = defaultvalue
 
     def _isboolopt(self):
         return False
 
+    def getdefaultvalue(self):
+        """Returns the default value for this opt.
+
+        Subclasses should override this to return a new value if the value type
+        is mutable."""
+        return self._defaultvalue
+
     @abc.abstractmethod
     def newstate(self, oldstate, newparam, abort):
         """Adds newparam to oldstate and returns the new state.
@@ -221,7 +228,7 b' class customopt(object):'
 
 class _simpleopt(customopt):
     def _isboolopt(self):
-        return isinstance(self.defaultvalue, (bool, type(None)))
+        return isinstance(self._defaultvalue, (bool, type(None)))
 
     def newstate(self, oldstate, newparam, abort):
         return newparam
@@ -235,6 +242,9 b' class _callableopt(customopt):'
         return self.callablefn(newparam)
 
 class _listopt(customopt):
+    def getdefaultvalue(self):
+        return self._defaultvalue[:]
+
     def newstate(self, oldstate, newparam, abort):
         oldstate.append(newparam)
         return oldstate
@@ -313,7 +323,7 b' def fancyopts(args, options, state, gnu='
         defmap[name] = _defaultopt(default)
 
         # copy defaults to state
-        state[name] = defmap[name].defaultvalue
+        state[name] = defmap[name].getdefaultvalue()
 
         # does it take a parameter?
         if not defmap[name]._isboolopt():

mercurial/help.py

@@ -87,7 +87,7 b' def optrst(header, options, verbose):'
         lo = '--' + longopt
 
         if isinstance(default, fancyopts.customopt):
-            default = default.defaultvalue
+            default = default.getdefaultvalue()
         if default and not callable(default):
             # default is of unknown type, and in Python 2 we abused
             # the %s-shows-repr property to handle integers etc. To