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.

#!/bin/sh

hg init rep
cd rep
mkdir dir
touch foo dir/bar
hg -v addremove
hg -v commit -m "add 1" -d "1000000 0"
cd dir/
touch ../foo_2 bar_2
hg -v addremove
hg -v commit -m "add 2" -d "1000000 0"