reverse sense of return value from python hooks. old scheme (False/None/0/'' == fail) made coding style unnatural, did not allow use of mercurial commands as hooks. new scheme (False/None/0 == pass) is pythonic, does not require peculiar "return True" at ends of hooks, allows hooks like this: [hooks] # update working dir after push into this repo changegroup.update = python:mercurial.commands.update

#!/bin/sh
#
mkdir t
cd t
hg init
echo 0 > a
echo 0 > b
hg ci -A -m m -d "1000000 0"
touch nottracked
hg locate a
hg locate NONEXISTENT
hg locate
hg rm a
hg ci -m m -d "1000000 0"
hg locate a
hg locate NONEXISTENT
hg locate
hg locate -r 0 a
hg locate -r 0 NONEXISTENT
hg locate -r 0