"hg outgoing" seems to produce completely bogus information for me, but I can't seem to make it crash.
evan@caron:~/src$ hg clone git+ssh://g...@github.com/nelhage/reptyr.git hgtest importing Hg objects into Git ["git-upload-pack '/nelhage/reptyr.git'"] Counting objects: 424, done. Compressing objects: 100% (190/190), done. Total 424 (delta 252), reused 394 (delta 222) importing Git objects into Hg updating to branch default 18 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved evan@caron:~/src$ cd hgtest evan@caron:~/src/hgtest$ rm * rm: cannot remove `arch': Is a directory evan@caron:~/src/hgtest$ ls arch evan@caron:~/src/hgtest$ hg addremove removing COPYING removing ChangeLog removing Makefile removing NOTES removing README removing attach.c removing ptrace.c removing ptrace.h removing reptyr.1 removing reptyr.c removing reptyr.fr.1 removing reptyr.h evan@caron:~/src/hgtest$ hg commit -m 'Dummy commit' evan@caron:~/src/hgtest$ hg out | head comparing with git+ssh://g...@github.com/nelhage/reptyr.git importing Hg objects into Git ["git-receive-pack '/nelhage/reptyr.git'"] searching for changes changeset: 0:e2ab176fb90c user: Nelson Elhage <nelh...@nelhage.com> date: Tue Jan 11 09:35:37 2011 -0500 summary: Initial import. Mostly able to run barnowl. changeset: 1:c81253a26a49 -- ubuntu-backports mailing list ubuntu-backports@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports