Given any revision identifier, returns a 40 char string with revision hash.

        """

        if self._empty:

            raise EmptyRepositoryError("There are no changesets yet")

        if revision in (None, '', 'tip', 'HEAD', 'head', -1):

            revision = -1

        if isinstance(revision, int):

            try:

                return self.revisions[revision]

            except IndexError:

                raise ChangesetDoesNotExistError(msg)

        if isinstance(revision, (str, unicode)):

            if revision.isdigit() and (len(revision) < 12 or len(revision) == revision.count('0')):

                try:

                    return self.revisions[int(revision)]

                except IndexError:

                    msg = "Revision %r does not exist for %s" % (revision, self)

                    raise ChangesetDoesNotExistError(msg)

            # get by branch/tag name

            _ref_revision = self._parsed_refs.get(revision)

            if _ref_revision:  # and _ref_revision[1] in [b'H', b'RH', b'T']:

                return ascii_str(_ref_revision[0])

            if revision in self.revisions:

                return revision

            # maybe it's a tag ? we don't have them in self.revisions

            if revision in self.tags.values():

                return revision

            if SHA_PATTERN.match(revision):

                raise ChangesetDoesNotExistError(msg)

        raise ChangesetDoesNotExistError("Given revision %r not recognized" % revision)

    def get_ref_revision(self, ref_type, ref_name):

        """

        Returns ``GitChangeset`` object representing repository's

        changeset at the given ``revision``.

        """

        return self._get_revision(ref_name)

    def _get_archives(self, archive_name='tip'):

                opts = {}

                if not update_after_clone:

                    opts.update({'noupdate': True})

                MercurialRepository._check_url(url, self.baseui)

                mercurial.commands.clone(self.baseui, url, self.path, **opts)

                # Don't try to create if we've already cloned repo

                create = False

            return mercurial.localrepo.instance(self.baseui, self.path, create=create)

        except (mercurial.error.Abort, mercurial.error.RepoError) as err:

            if create:

                msg = "Cannot create repository at %s. Original error was %s" \

            else:

                msg = "Not valid repository at %s. Original error was %s" \

            raise RepositoryError(msg)

    @LazyProperty

    def in_memory_changeset(self):

        return MercurialInMemoryChangeset(self)

    @LazyProperty

    def description(self):

        _desc = self._repo.ui.config(b'web', b'description', None, untrusted=True)

        return safe_unicode(_desc or b'unknown')

    @LazyProperty

            raise EmptyRepositoryError("There are no changesets yet")

        if revision in [-1, None]:

            revision = b'tip'

        elif isinstance(revision, unicode):

            revision = safe_bytes(revision)

        try:

            if isinstance(revision, int):

                return ascii_str(self._repo[revision].hex())

            return ascii_str(mercurial.scmutil.revsymbol(self._repo, revision).hex())

        except (IndexError, ValueError, mercurial.error.RepoLookupError, TypeError):

            raise ChangesetDoesNotExistError(msg)

        except (LookupError, ):

            raise ChangesetDoesNotExistError(msg)

    def get_ref_revision(self, ref_type, ref_name):

        """

        Returns revision number for the given reference.

        """

        ref_name = safe_str(ref_name)

        if ref_type == 'rev' and not ref_name.strip('0'):

            return self.EMPTY_CHANGESET

        # lookup up the exact node id

        _revset_predicates = {

                'branch': 'branch',

                'book': 'bookmark',

                'tag': 'tag',

                'rev': 'id',

            }

        # avoid expensive branch(x) iteration over whole repo

        rev_spec = "%%s & %s(%%s)" % _revset_predicates[ref_type]

        try:

            revs = self._repo.revs(rev_spec, ref_name, ref_name)

        except LookupError:

            raise ChangesetDoesNotExistError(msg)

        except mercurial.error.RepoLookupError:

            raise ChangesetDoesNotExistError(msg)

        if revs:

            revision = revs.last()

        else:

            # TODO: just report 'not found'?

            revision = ref_name

        return self._get_revision(revision)

    def _get_archives(self, archive_name='tip'):

        allowed = self.baseui.configlist(b"web", b"allow_archive",

                                         untrusted=True)

        :param reversed: return changesets in reversed order

        """

        start_raw_id = self._get_revision(start)

        start_pos = None if start is None else self.revisions.index(start_raw_id)

        end_raw_id = self._get_revision(end)

        end_pos = None if end is None else self.revisions.index(end_raw_id)

        if start_pos is not None and end_pos is not None and start_pos > end_pos:

            raise RepositoryError("Start revision '%s' cannot be "

                                  "after end revision '%s'" % (start, end))

        if branch_name and branch_name not in self.allbranches:

            raise BranchDoesNotExistError(msg)

        if end_pos is not None:

            end_pos += 1

        # filter branches

        filter_ = []

        if branch_name:

            filter_.append(b'branch("%s")' % safe_bytes(branch_name))

        if start_date:

            filter_.append(b'date(">%s")' % start_date)

        if end_date:

            filter_.append(b'date("<%s")' % end_date)

        if filter_ or max_revisions: