Ignore EPIPE in pipefilter This hides the following traceback (there's a race condition involved, so you may have to try a few times to hit it): $ hg sign --key key-that-does-not-exist Signing 2062:4bad92f4ea65 gpg: skipped "key-that-does-not-exist": secret key not available gpg: signing failed: secret key not available Exception in thread Thread-1: Traceback (most recent call last): File "threading.py", line 442, in __bootstrap self.run() File "threading.py", line 422, in run self.__target(*self.__args, **self.__kwargs) File "mercurial/util.py", line 24, in writer pin.close() IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe abort: Error while signing

import mercurial.util

def dumbdecode(s, cmd):
    return s.replace('\n', '\r\n')

def dumbencode(s, cmd):
    return s.replace('\r\n', '\n')

def clevertest(s, cmd):
    if '\0' in s: return False
    return True

def cleverdecode(s, cmd):
    if clevertest(s, cmd):
        return dumbdecode(s, cmd)
    return s

def cleverencode(s, cmd):
    if clevertest(s, cmd):
        return dumbencode(s, cmd)
    return s

mercurial.util.filtertable.update({
    'dumbdecode:': dumbdecode,
    'dumbencode:': dumbencode,
    'cleverdecode:': cleverdecode,
    'cleverencode:': cleverencode,
    })