AmbiguousCommand is raised too soon. Right now, hg raises AmbiguousCommand as soon as it finds two commands/aliases that start with the substring it's searching for, even though it may still find a full match later on. This is a bit hard to hit on purpose, because hg checks the list of commands in whatever order is returned by table.keys(), which will change when you add an alias to a command. You should be able to hit it by adding an alias "u" to the "identify" command - not that that makes a lot of sense...

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys, os
from mercurial import hg

f = sys.argv[1]

r1 = hg.revlog(open, f + ".i", f + ".d")
r2 = hg.revlog(open, f + ".i2", f + ".d2")

tr = hg.transaction(open, "journal")

for i in xrange(r1.count()):
    n = r1.node(i)
    p1, p2 = r1.parents(n)
    l = r1.linkrev(n)
    t = r1.revision(n)
    n2 = r2.addrevision(t, tr, l, p1, p2)
tr.close()

os.rename(f + ".i", f + ".i.old")
os.rename(f + ".d", f + ".d.old")
os.rename(f + ".i2", f + ".i")
os.rename(f + ".d2", f + ".d")