diff --git a/mercurial/dirstateutils/v2.py b/mercurial/dirstateutils/v2.py
--- a/mercurial/dirstateutils/v2.py
+++ b/mercurial/dirstateutils/v2.py
@@ -149,7 +149,6 @@
         else:
             # There are no mtime-cached directories in the Python implementation
             flags = 0
-            mode = 0
             size = 0
             mtime_s = 0
             mtime_ns = 0