# HG changeset patch
# User Mads Kiilerich <mads@kiilerich.com>
# Date 2010-07-23 22:38:08
# Node ID f92f8921a5cc262f043c99a9ea7afcb9835b2aca
# Parent  c29012a73518b95991a2d4bf3b899302ae84de40

dispatch: give better error message when cwd doesn't exist (issue2293)

Previous behavior wasn't very helpful:
$ hg st foo
abort: No such file or directory

Now we tell more about what failed:
abort: error getting current working directory: No such file or directory

diff --git a/mercurial/dispatch.py b/mercurial/dispatch.py
--- a/mercurial/dispatch.py
+++ b/mercurial/dispatch.py
@@ -366,7 +366,12 @@ def _dispatch(ui, args):
         os.chdir(cwd[-1])
 
     # read the local repository .hgrc into a local ui object
-    path = cmdutil.findrepo(os.getcwd()) or ""
+    try:
+        wd = os.getcwd()
+    except OSError, e:
+        raise util.Abort(_("error getting current working directory: %s") % 
+                         e.strerror)
+    path = cmdutil.findrepo(wd) or ""
     if not path:
         lui = ui
     else:
diff --git a/tests/test-dispatch b/tests/test-dispatch
--- a/tests/test-dispatch
+++ b/tests/test-dispatch
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 
 "$TESTDIR/hghave" no-outer-repo || exit 80
 
+dir=`pwd`
+
 hg init a
 cd a
 echo a > a
@@ -19,8 +21,12 @@ cat = -r null
 EOF
 hg cat a
 
+echo '% working directory removed'
+rm -rf $dir/a
+hg --version
+
 echo '% no repo'
-cd ..
+cd $dir
 hg cat
 
 exit 0
diff --git a/tests/test-dispatch.out b/tests/test-dispatch.out
--- a/tests/test-dispatch.out
+++ b/tests/test-dispatch.out
@@ -33,5 +33,7 @@ use "hg -v help cat" to show global opti
 % [defaults]
 a
 a: No such file in rev 000000000000
+% working directory removed
+abort: error getting current working directory: No such file or directory
 % no repo
 abort: There is no Mercurial repository here (.hg not found)!