Catch HTTPException when reading from remote http repository. If the server dies very early, an httplib.IncompleteRead exception may be raised, because httplib can't read a single byte. Catching all HTTPException subclasses here will prevent ugly backtraces for similar things, too.

# repo.py - repository base classes for mercurial
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# Copyright 2005 Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
# of the GNU General Public License, incorporated herein by reference.

class RepoError(Exception): pass