Checking how hg behaves when one side of a pull/push doesn't support some capability (because it's running an older hg version, usually). $ hg init repo1 $ cd repo1 $ echo a > a; hg add -q a; hg commit -q -m a $ hg bookmark a $ hg clone -q . ../repo2 $ cd ../repo2 $ touch $TESTTMP/disable-lookup.py $ disable_cap() { > rm -f $TESTTMP/disable-lookup.pyc # pyc caching is buggy > cat < $TESTTMP/disable-lookup.py > from mercurial import extensions, wireprotov1server > def wcapabilities(orig, *args, **kwargs): > cap = orig(*args, **kwargs) > cap.remove(b'$1') > return cap > extensions.wrapfunction(wireprotov1server, '_capabilities', wcapabilities) > EOF > } $ cat >> ../repo1/.hg/hgrc < [extensions] > disable-lookup = $TESTTMP/disable-lookup.py > EOF $ hg pull ssh://user@dummy/repo1 -r tip -B a pulling from ssh://user@dummy/repo1 no changes found $ disable_cap lookup $ hg pull ssh://user@dummy/repo1 -r tip -B a pulling from ssh://user@dummy/repo1 abort: other repository doesn't support revision lookup, so a rev cannot be specified. [255] $ disable_cap pushkey $ hg pull ssh://user@dummy/repo1 -r tip -B a pulling from ssh://user@dummy/repo1 abort: remote bookmark a not found! [10]