diff -r 4ac9cf3d810c -r 7f5dab94e48c mercurial/localrepo.py
--- a/mercurial/localrepo.py	Fri Nov 09 14:49:30 2012 -0800
+++ b/mercurial/localrepo.py	Wed Nov 07 16:21:39 2012 -0600
@@ -265,15 +265,12 @@
 
     @filecache('bookmarks')
     def _bookmarks(self):
-        return bookmarks.read(self)
+        return bookmarks.bmstore(self)
 
     @filecache('bookmarks.current')
     def _bookmarkcurrent(self):
         return bookmarks.readcurrent(self)
 
-    def _writebookmarks(self, marks):
-        bookmarks.write(self)
-
     def bookmarkheads(self, bookmark):
         name = bookmark.split('@', 1)[0]
         heads = []