--- a/mercurial/localrepo.py	Sun Mar 12 18:05:13 2006 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/localrepo.py	Sun Mar 12 20:13:58 2006 +0100
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
 
         self.dirstate = dirstate.dirstate(self.opener, self.ui, self.root)
         try:
-            self.ui.readconfig(self.join("hgrc"))
+            self.ui.readconfig(self.join("hgrc"), self.root)
         except IOError:
             pass