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

mkdir a
cd a
hg init
echo 123 > a
hg add a
hg commit -m "a" -u a -d "1000000 0"

cd ..
mkdir b
cd b
hg init
echo 321 > b
hg add b
hg commit -m "b" -u b -d "1000000 0"

hg pull ../a
hg pull -f ../a
hg heads