Backout ad09ce1d393c and replace ''' with """ to make some highlighting happy. I have tried Debian's default emacs and the current CVS version. Default emacs doesn't have highlighting enabled (and being emacs-illiterate I don't know how to enable it) and the CVS emacs' Python highlighting has no problems with ' characters here.

#!/bin/sh

mkdir a
cd a
hg init
echo foo > b
hg add b
hg ci -m "b" -d "1000000 0"

chmod -w .hg/store

cd ..

hg clone a b

chmod +w a/.hg/store # let test clean up

cd b
hg verify