--- a/mercurial/hg.py	Wed Jul 06 22:11:54 2005 -0800
+++ b/mercurial/hg.py	Wed Jul 06 22:14:10 2005 -0800
@@ -498,6 +498,10 @@
         except KeyError:
             return self.changelog.lookup(key)
 
+    def dev(self):
+        if self.remote: return -1
+        return os.stat(self.path).st_dev
+
     def join(self, f):
         return os.path.join(self.path, f)
 
@@ -1547,6 +1551,9 @@
         opener = urllib2.build_opener(proxy_handler, authinfo)
         urllib2.install_opener(opener)
 
+    def dev(self):
+        return -1
+
     def do_cmd(self, cmd, **args):
         self.ui.debug("sending %s command\n" % cmd)
         q = {"cmd": cmd}
@@ -1624,6 +1631,9 @@
         self.pipeo.close()
         self.pipei.close()
 
+    def dev(self):
+        return -1
+
     def do_cmd(self, cmd, **args):
         self.ui.debug("sending %s command\n" % cmd)
         self.pipeo.write("%s\n" % cmd)