mergestate: add a constructor that sets up a clean merge state...
mergestate: add a constructor that sets up a clean merge state
Eventually, we'll move the read call out of the constructor. This will:
- avoid unnecessary reads when we're going to nuke the merge state anyway
- avoid raising an exception if there's an unsupported merge record
'clean' seems like a good name for it because I wanted to avoid anything with
the word 'new' in it, and 'reset' is more an action performed on a merge state
than a way to get a new merge state.
Thanks to Martin von Zweigbergk for feedback about naming this.
