diff -r e478f11e4182 -r 1767723f71cf mercurial/localrepo.py
--- a/mercurial/localrepo.py	Tue Oct 18 14:27:30 2016 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/localrepo.py	Tue Oct 18 17:32:51 2016 -0700
@@ -506,6 +506,12 @@
 
     @storecache('00manifest.i')
     def manifest(self):
+        return self._constructmanifest()
+
+    def _constructmanifest(self):
+        # This is a temporary function while we migrate from manifest to
+        # manifestlog. It allows bundlerepo and unionrepo to intercept the
+        # manifest creation.
         return manifest.manifest(self.svfs)
 
     @property