diff -r 8cab8a5006a5 -r 48e32c2c499b mercurial/context.py
--- a/mercurial/context.py	Fri Aug 01 18:23:18 2014 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/context.py	Fri Aug 01 18:30:18 2014 -0700
@@ -1341,8 +1341,10 @@
             try:
                 # updating the dirstate is optional
                 # so we don't wait on the lock
+                # wlock can invalidate the dirstate, so cache normal _after_
+                # taking the lock
+                wlock = self._repo.wlock(False)
                 normal = self._repo.dirstate.normal
-                wlock = self._repo.wlock(False)
                 try:
                     for f in fixup:
                         normal(f)