--- a/mercurial/statichttprepo.py	Wed Feb 15 23:44:10 2012 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/statichttprepo.py	Wed Feb 15 20:02:35 2012 +0200
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@
         self.spath = self.store.path
         self.sopener = self.store.opener
         self.sjoin = self.store.join
+        self._filecache = {}
 
         self.manifest = manifest.manifest(self.sopener)
         self.changelog = changelog.changelog(self.sopener)
@@ -122,7 +123,6 @@
         self.encodepats = None
         self.decodepats = None
         self.capabilities.difference_update(["pushkey"])
-        self._filecache = {}
 
     def url(self):
         return self._url