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

#!/bin/sh

hg init
touch unknown

touch a
hg add a
hg ci -m "1" -d "1000000 0"

touch b
hg add b
hg ci -m "2" -d "1000000 0"

echo %% Should show unknown
hg status
hg revert -r 0
echo %% Should show unknown and b removed
hg status
echo %% Should show a and unknown
ls