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 a
hg add a
hg commit -m "Added a" -d "1000000 0"

touch main
hg add main
hg commit -m "Added main" -d "1000000 0"
hg checkout 0

echo Main should be gone
ls

touch side1
hg add side1
hg commit -m "Added side1" -d "1000000 0"
touch side2
hg add side2
hg commit -m "Added side2" -d "1000000 0"

hg log

echo Should have two heads, side2 and main
hg heads

echo Should show "a side1 side2"
ls

hg update --debug -C 1
echo Should only show "a main"
ls