return self._get_bookmarks()

    def _get_bookmarks(self):

        if self._empty:

            return {}

        sortkey = lambda ctx: ctx[0]  # sort by name

        _bookmarks = [(safe_unicode(n), hex(h),) for n, h in

                 self._repo._bookmarks.items()]

        return OrderedDict(sorted(_bookmarks, key=sortkey, reverse=True))

    def _get_all_revisions(self):

        return [self._repo[x].hex() for x in self._repo.filtered('visible').changelog.revs()]

    def get_diff(self, rev1, rev2, path='', ignore_whitespace=False,

                  context=3):

        """

        Returns (git like) *diff*, as plain text. Shows changes introduced by

        ``rev2`` since ``rev1``.

        :param rev1: Entry point from which diff is shown. Can be

          ``self.EMPTY_CHANGESET`` - in this case, patch showing all

          the changes since empty state of the repository until ``rev2``

        :param rev2: Until which revision changes should be shown.

        :param ignore_whitespace: If set to ``True``, would not show whitespace

          changes. Defaults to ``False``.

        :param context: How many lines before/after changed lines should be

          shown. Defaults to ``3``.

        """

        if hasattr(rev1, 'raw_id'):

            rev1 = getattr(rev1, 'raw_id')

        if hasattr(rev2, 'raw_id'):

            rev2 = getattr(rev2, 'raw_id')

        # Check if given revisions are present at repository (may raise

        # ChangesetDoesNotExistError)

        if rev1 != self.EMPTY_CHANGESET:

            self.get_changeset(rev1)

        self.get_changeset(rev2)

        if path:

            file_filter = match(self.path, '', [path])

        else:

            file_filter = None

        return ''.join(patch.diff(self._repo, rev1, rev2, match=file_filter,

                          opts=diffopts(git=True,

                                        ignorews=ignore_whitespace,

                                        context=context)))

    @classmethod

    def _check_url(cls, url, repoui=None):

        """

        Function will check given url and try to verify if it's a valid

        link. Sometimes it may happened that mercurial will issue basic

        auth request that can cause whole API to hang when used from python

        or other external calls.

        On failures it'll raise urllib2.HTTPError, exception is also thrown

        when the return code is non 200

        """

        # check first if it's not an local url

        if os.path.isdir(url) or url.startswith('file:'):

            return True

        if url.startswith('ssh:'):

            # in case of invalid uri or authentication issues, sshpeer will

            # throw an exception.

            sshpeer(repoui or ui.ui(), url).lookup('tip')

            return True

        url_prefix = None

        if '+' in url[:url.find('://')]:

            url_prefix, url = url.split('+', 1)

        handlers = []

        url_obj = hg_url(url)

        test_uri, authinfo = url_obj.authinfo()

        url_obj.passwd = '*****'

        cleaned_uri = str(url_obj)

        if authinfo:

            #create a password manager

            passmgr = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()

            passmgr.add_password(*authinfo)

            handlers.extend((httpbasicauthhandler(passmgr),

                             httpdigestauthhandler(passmgr)))

        o = urllib2.build_opener(*handlers)

        o.addheaders = [('Content-Type', 'application/mercurial-0.1'),

                        ('Accept', 'application/mercurial-0.1')]

        q = {"cmd": 'between'}

        q.update({'pairs': "%s-%s" % ('0' * 40, '0' * 40)})