**kwargs):

        """

        Creates and returns a tag for the given ``revision``.

        :param name: name for new tag

        :param user: full username, i.e.: "Joe Doe <joe.doe@example.com>"

        :param revision: changeset id for which new tag would be created

        :param message: message of the tag's commit

        :param date: date of tag's commit

        :raises TagAlreadyExistError: if tag with same name already exists

        """

        if name in self.tags:

            raise TagAlreadyExistError("Tag %s already exists" % name)

        changeset = self.get_changeset(revision)

        local = kwargs.setdefault('local', False)

        if message is None:

            message = "Added tag %s for changeset %s" % (name,

                changeset.short_id)

        if date is None:

            date = datetime.datetime.now().ctime()

        try:

            self._repo.tag(name, changeset._ctx.node(), message, local, user,

                date)

        except Abort, e:

            raise RepositoryError(e.message)

        # Reinitialize tags

        self.tags = self._get_tags()

        tag_id = self.tags[name]

        return self.get_changeset(revision=tag_id)

    def remove_tag(self, name, user, message=None, date=None):

        """

        Removes tag with the given ``name``.

        :param name: name of the tag to be removed

        :param user: full username, i.e.: "Joe Doe <joe.doe@example.com>"

        :param message: message of the tag's removal commit

        :param date: date of tag's removal commit

        :raises TagDoesNotExistError: if tag with given name does not exists

        """

        if name not in self.tags:

            raise TagDoesNotExistError("Tag %s does not exist" % name)

        if message is None:

            message = "Removed tag %s" % name

        if date is None:

            date = datetime.datetime.now().ctime()

        local = False

        try:

            self._repo.tag(name, nullid, message, local, user, date)

            self.tags = self._get_tags()

        except Abort, e:

            raise RepositoryError(e.message)

    @LazyProperty

    def bookmarks(self):

        """

        Get's bookmarks for this repository

        """

        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 map(lambda x: hex(x[7]), self._repo.changelog.index)[:-1]

    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``.

        """

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

        # ChangesetDoesNotExistError)

        if rev1 != self.EMPTY_CHANGESET:

            self.get_changeset(rev1)

        self.get_changeset(rev2)

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

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

                          opts=diffopts(git=True,

                                        ignorews=ignore_whitespace,

                                        context=context)))

    def _check_url(self, url):

        """

        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, return code 200 if url

        is valid or True if it's a local path

        """

        from mercurial.util import url as Url

        # those authnadlers are patched for python 2.6.5 bug an

        # infinit looping when given invalid resources

        from mercurial.url import httpbasicauthhandler, httpdigestauthhandler

        # check first if it's not an local url

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

            return True

        handlers = []

        test_uri, authinfo = Url(url).authinfo()

        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)})

        qs = '?%s' % urllib.urlencode(q)

        cu = "%s%s" % (test_uri, qs)

        req = urllib2.Request(cu, None, {})

        try:

            resp = o.open(req)

            return resp.code == 200

        except Exception, e:

            # means it cannot be cloned

            raise urllib2.URLError(e)

    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 = str(self._get_url(src_url))

                opts = {}

                if not update_after_clone:

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

                try:

                    self._check_url(url)

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

#                except urllib2.URLError:

#                    raise Abort("Got HTTP 404 error")

                except Exception:

                    raise

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

                create = False

            return localrepository(self.baseui, self.path, create=create)

        except (Abort, RepoError), err:

            if create:

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

                    % (self.path, err)

            else:

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

                    % (self.path, err)

            raise RepositoryError(msg)