--- a/mercurial/localrepo.py
+++ b/mercurial/localrepo.py
@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ class localrepository(object):
self.transhandle = None
if create:
- if not os.path.exists(path):
- os.mkdir(path)
+ if not os.path.exists(path):
+ os.mkdir(path)
os.mkdir(self.path)
os.mkdir(self.join("data"))