memctx: explicitly set substate to None In d2743be1bb06, memctx was changed to inherit from committablectx, this in turn added the 'substate' property to memctx. It turns out that the newcommitphase method tested for this property: def newcommitphase(ui, ctx): commitphase = phases.newcommitphase(ui) substate = getattr(ctx, "substate", None) if not substate: return commitphase Currently, memctx isn't ready to handle substates, nor removed files, so we explicitly must set substate=None to get the old behavior back. In the future, we can decide how memctx should play with substate. For now, this fixes third-party extensions and some internal code dealing with subrepos.