cleaned_uri = str(url_obj)

        if authinfo:

            # create a password manager

            passmgr = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()

            passmgr.add_password(*authinfo)

            handlers.extend((mercurial.url.httpbasicauthhandler(passmgr),

                             mercurial.url.httpdigestauthhandler(passmgr)))

        o = urllib2.build_opener(*handlers)

        o.addheaders = [('User-Agent', 'git/1.7.8.0')]  # fake some git

        req = urllib2.Request(

            "%s?%s" % (

                test_uri,

                urllib.urlencode({"service": 'git-upload-pack'})

            ))

        try:

            resp = o.open(req)

            if resp.code != 200:

                raise Exception('Return Code is not 200')

        except Exception as e:

            # means it cannot be cloned

            raise urllib2.URLError("[%s] org_exc: %s" % (cleaned_uri, e))

        # now detect if it's proper git repo

        gitdata = resp.read()

        if 'service=git-upload-pack' not in gitdata:

            raise urllib2.URLError(

                "url [%s] does not look like an git" % cleaned_uri)

        return True

    def _get_repo(self, create, src_url=None, update_after_clone=False,

                  bare=False):

        if create and os.path.exists(self.path):

            raise RepositoryError("Location already exist")

        if src_url and not create:

            raise RepositoryError("Create should be set to True if src_url is "

                                  "given (clone operation creates repository)")

        try:

            if create and src_url:

                GitRepository._check_url(src_url)

                self.clone(src_url, update_after_clone, bare)

                return Repo(self.path)

            elif create:

                os.makedirs(self.path)

                if bare:

                    return Repo.init_bare(self.path)

                else:

                    return Repo.init(self.path)

            else:

                return Repo(self.path)

        except (NotGitRepository, OSError) as err:

            raise RepositoryError(err)

    def _get_all_revisions(self):

        # we must check if this repo is not empty, since later command

        # fails if it is. And it's cheaper to ask than throw the subprocess

        # errors

        try:

            self._repo.head()

        except KeyError:

            return []

        rev_filter = settings.GIT_REV_FILTER

        cmd = ['rev-list', rev_filter, '--reverse', '--date-order']

        try:

            so = self.run_git_command(cmd)

        except RepositoryError:

            # Can be raised for empty repositories

            return []

        return so.splitlines()

    def _get_all_revisions2(self):

        # alternate implementation using dulwich

        includes = [ascii_str(sha) for key, (sha, type_) in self._parsed_refs.iteritems()

                    if type_ != b'T']

        return [c.commit.id for c in self._repo.get_walker(include=includes)]

    def _get_revision(self, revision):

        """

        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'):

        for i in [('zip', '.zip'), ('gz', '.tar.gz'), ('bz2', '.tar.bz2')]:

            yield {"type": i[0], "extension": i[1], "node": archive_name}

    def _get_url(self, url):

        """

        Returns normalized url. If schema is not given, would fall to

        filesystem (``file:///``) schema.

        """

        url = safe_str(url)

        if url != 'default' and '://' not in url:

            url = ':///'.join(('file', url))

        return url

    def get_hook_location(self):

        """

        returns absolute path to location where hooks are stored

        """

        loc = os.path.join(self.path, 'hooks')

        if not self.bare:

            loc = os.path.join(self.path, '.git', 'hooks')

        return loc

    @LazyProperty

    def name(self):

        return os.path.basename(self.path)

    @LazyProperty

    def last_change(self):

        """

        Returns last change made on this repository as datetime object

        """

        return date_fromtimestamp(self._get_mtime(), makedate()[1])

    def _get_mtime(self):

        try:

            return time.mktime(self.get_changeset().date.timetuple())

        except RepositoryError:

            idx_loc = '' if self.bare else '.git'

            # fallback to filesystem

            in_path = os.path.join(self.path, idx_loc, "index")

            he_path = os.path.join(self.path, idx_loc, "HEAD")

            if os.path.exists(in_path):

                return os.stat(in_path).st_mtime

            else:

                return os.stat(he_path).st_mtime

    @LazyProperty

    def description(self):

        return safe_unicode(self._repo.get_description() or b'unknown')

    @LazyProperty

    def contact(self):

        undefined_contact = u'Unknown'

        return undefined_contact

    @property

    def branches(self):

        if not self.revisions:

            return {}

        sortkey = lambda ctx: ctx[0]

        _branches = [(key, ascii_str(sha))

                     for key, (sha, type_) in self._parsed_refs.iteritems() if type_ == b'H']

        return OrderedDict(sorted(_branches, key=sortkey, reverse=False))

    @LazyProperty

    def closed_branches(self):

        return {}

    @LazyProperty

    def tags(self):

        return self._get_tags()

    def _get_tags(self):

        if not self.revisions:

            return {}

        sortkey = lambda ctx: ctx[0]

        _tags = [(key, ascii_str(sha))

                 for key, (sha, type_) in self._parsed_refs.iteritems() if type_ == b'T']

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

    def tag(self, name, user, revision=None, message=None, date=None,

            **kwargs):

    @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(b'file:'):

            return True

        if url.startswith(b'ssh:'):

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

            # throw an exception.

            mercurial.sshpeer.instance(repoui or mercurial.ui.ui(), url, False).lookup(b'tip')

            return True

        url_prefix = None

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

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

        handlers = []

        url_obj = mercurial.util.url(url)

        test_uri, authinfo = url_obj.authinfo()

        url_obj.passwd = b'*****'

        cleaned_uri = str(url_obj)

        if authinfo:

            # create a password manager

            passmgr = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()

            passmgr.add_password(*authinfo)

            handlers.extend((mercurial.url.httpbasicauthhandler(passmgr),

                             mercurial.url.httpdigestauthhandler(passmgr)))

        o = urllib2.build_opener(*handlers)

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

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

        req = urllib2.Request(

            "%s?%s" % (

                test_uri,

                urllib.urlencode({

                    'cmd': 'between',

                    'pairs': "%s-%s" % ('0' * 40, '0' * 40),

                })

            ))

        try:

            resp = o.open(req)

            if resp.code != 200:

                raise Exception('Return Code is not 200')

        except Exception as e:

            # means it cannot be cloned

            raise urllib2.URLError("[%s] org_exc: %s" % (cleaned_uri, e))

        if not url_prefix: # skip svn+http://... (and git+... too)

            # now check if it's a proper hg repo

            try:

                mercurial.httppeer.instance(repoui or mercurial.ui.ui(), url, False).lookup(b'tip')

            except Exception as e:

                raise urllib2.URLError(

                    "url [%s] does not look like an hg repo org_exc: %s"

                    % (cleaned_uri, e))

        return True

    def _get_repo(self, create, src_url=None, update_after_clone=False):

        """

        Function will check for mercurial repository in given path and return

        a localrepo object. If there is no repository in that path it will

        raise an exception unless ``create`` parameter is set to True - in

        that case repository would be created and returned.

        If ``src_url`` is given, would try to clone repository from the

        location at given clone_point. Additionally it'll make update to

        working copy accordingly to ``update_after_clone`` flag

        """

        try:

            if src_url:

                url = safe_bytes(self._get_url(src_url))

                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

    def contact(self):

        return safe_unicode(mercurial.hgweb.common.get_contact(self._repo.ui.config)

                            or b'Unknown')

    @LazyProperty

    def last_change(self):

        """

        Returns last change made on this repository as datetime object

        """

        return date_fromtimestamp(self._get_mtime(), makedate()[1])

    def _get_mtime(self):

        try:

            return time.mktime(self.get_changeset().date.timetuple())

        except RepositoryError:

            # fallback to filesystem

            cl_path = os.path.join(self.path, '.hg', "00changelog.i")

            st_path = os.path.join(self.path, '.hg', "store")

            if os.path.exists(cl_path):

                return os.stat(cl_path).st_mtime

            else:

                return os.stat(st_path).st_mtime

    def _get_revision(self, revision):

        """

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

        :param revision: str or int or None

        """

        if self._empty:

            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)

        for name, ext in [(b'zip', '.zip'), (b'gz', '.tar.gz'), (b'bz2', '.tar.bz2')]:

            if name in allowed or self._repo.ui.configbool(b"web",

                                                           b"allow" + name,

                                                           untrusted=True):

                yield {"type": name, "extension": ext, "node": archive_name}

    def _get_url(self, url):

        """

        Returns normalized url. If schema is not given, would fall

        to filesystem

        (``file:///``) schema.

        """

        url = safe_str(url)

        if url != 'default' and '://' not in url:

            url = "file:" + urllib.pathname2url(url)

        return url

    def get_hook_location(self):

        """

        returns absolute path to location where hooks are stored

        """

        return os.path.join(self.path, '.hg', '.hgrc')

    def get_changeset(self, revision=None):

        """

        Returns ``MercurialChangeset`` object representing repository's

        changeset at the given ``revision``.

        """

        return MercurialChangeset(repository=self, revision=self._get_revision(revision))

    def get_changesets(self, start=None, end=None, start_date=None,

                       end_date=None, branch_name=None, reverse=False, max_revisions=None):

        """

        Returns iterator of ``MercurialChangeset`` objects from start to end

        (both are inclusive)

        :param start: None, str, int or mercurial lookup format

        :param end:  None, str, int or mercurial lookup format

        :param start_date:

        :param end_date:

        :param branch_name:

        :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:

            if filter_:

                revspec = b' and '.join(filter_)

            else:

                revspec = b'all()'

            if max_revisions:

                revspec = b'limit(%s, %d)' % (revspec, max_revisions)

            revisions = mercurial.scmutil.revrange(self._repo, [revspec])

        else:

            revisions = self.revisions

        # this is very much a hack to turn this into a list; a better solution

        # would be to get rid of this function entirely and use revsets

        revs = list(revisions)[start_pos:end_pos]

        if reverse:

            revs.reverse()

        return CollectionGenerator(self, revs)

    def pull(self, url):

        """

        Tries to pull changes from external location.

        """

        url = self._get_url(url)

        other = mercurial.hg.peer(self._repo, {}, url)

        try:

            mercurial.exchange.pull(self._repo, other, heads=None, force=None)

        except mercurial.error.Abort as err:

            # Propagate error but with vcs's type

            raise RepositoryError(str(err))

    @LazyProperty

    def workdir(self):

        """

        Returns ``Workdir`` instance for this repository.

        """

        return MercurialWorkdir(self)

    def get_config_value(self, section, name=None, config_file=None):

        """

        Returns configuration value for a given [``section``] and ``name``.

        :param section: Section we want to retrieve value from

        :param name: Name of configuration we want to retrieve

        :param config_file: A path to file which should be used to retrieve

          configuration from (might also be a list of file paths)

        """

        if config_file is None:

            config_file = []

        elif isinstance(config_file, basestring):

            config_file = [config_file]

        config = self._repo.ui

        if config_file:

            config = mercurial.ui.ui()

            for path in config_file:

                config.readconfig(path)

        return config.config(section, name)

    def get_user_name(self, config_file=None):

        """

        Returns user's name from global configuration file.

        :param config_file: A path to file which should be used to retrieve

          configuration from (might also be a list of file paths)

        """

        username = self.get_config_value('ui', 'username', config_file=config_file)

        if username:

            return author_name(username)

        return None

    def get_user_email(self, config_file=None):

        """

        Returns user's email from global configuration file.

        :param config_file: A path to file which should be used to retrieve

          configuration from (might also be a list of file paths)

        """

        username = self.get_config_value('ui', 'username', config_file=config_file)

        if username:

            return author_email(username)

        return None