Older clients will still print the provided error message and not much else:
over ssh, this will be each line prefixed with 'remote: ' in addition to an
"abort: unexpected response: '\n'"; over http, this will be the '---%<---'
banners in addition to the 'does not appear to be a repository' message.
Currently, clients with this patch will display 'abort: remote error:\n' and
the provided error text, but it is trivial to style the error text however is
deemed appropriate.
This improves the misleading error message
$ hg identify
abort: there is no Mercurial repository here (.hg not found)!
to the more explicit
$ hg identify
abort: requirement 'fake' not supported!
for all commands in commands.optionalrepo, which includes the identify
and serve commands in particular.
This is for the case when a new entry in .hg/requires will be defined
in a future Mercurial release.
- create error.py for exception classes to reduce demandloading
- move revlog exceptions to it
- change users to import error and drop revlog import if possible
