From 53f0bf85d7781960d61ea0d4e3f2435102ca7fb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 16:43:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Comment

---
 synapse/state.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/synapse/state.py b/synapse/state.py
index c1ce46d1b..8a635f1cc 100644
--- a/synapse/state.py
+++ b/synapse/state.py
@@ -124,6 +124,9 @@ class StateHandler(object):
         context = EventContext()
 
         if outlier:
+            # If this is an outlier, then we know it shouldn't have any current
+            # state. Certainly store.get_current_state won't return any, and
+            # persisting the event won't store the state group.
             if old_state:
                 context.current_state = {
                     (s.type, s.state_key): s for s in old_state