--- a/mercurial/localrepo.py	Tue Apr 18 19:50:12 2006 -0400
+++ b/mercurial/localrepo.py	Wed Apr 19 15:35:10 2006 -0400
@@ -168,7 +168,6 @@
             try:
                 return self.changelog.lookup(key)
             except:
-                raise
                 raise repo.RepoError(_("unknown revision '%s'") % key)
 
     def dev(self):