if os.path.isdir(self.path):

            cwd = self.path

        stdout, _stderr = self._run_git_command(cmd, cwd=cwd)

        return safe_str(stdout)

    @classmethod

    def _check_url(cls, url):

        """

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

        link. Sometimes it may happened that git 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('git://'):

            return True

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

            url = url[url.find('+') + 1:]

        handlers = []

        url_obj = mercurial.util.url(safe_bytes(url))

        test_uri, authinfo = url_obj.authinfo()

        if not test_uri.endswith(b'info/refs'):

            test_uri = test_uri.rstrip(b'/') + b'/info/refs'

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

        cleaned_uri = str(url_obj)

        if authinfo:

            # create a password manager

            passmgr = urllib.request.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()

            passmgr.add_password(*authinfo)

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

                             mercurial.url.httpdigestauthhandler(passmgr)))

        o = urllib.request.build_opener(*handlers)

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

        req = urllib.request.Request(

            "%s?%s" % (

                urllib.parse.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 urllib.error.URLError("[%s] org_exc: %s" % (cleaned_uri, e))

        # now detect if it's proper git repo

        gitdata = resp.read()

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

            raise urllib.error.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()