--- a/mercurial/sshrepo.py	Wed Aug 03 16:41:14 2011 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/sshrepo.py	Tue Aug 02 15:21:10 2011 -0400
@@ -164,6 +164,17 @@
 
     def _recv(self):
         l = self.pipei.readline()
+        if l == '\n':
+            err = []
+            while True:
+                line = self.pipee.readline()
+                if line == '-\n':
+                    break
+                err.extend([line])
+            if len(err) > 0:
+                # strip the trailing newline added to the last line server-side
+                err[-1] = err[-1][:-1]
+            self._abort(error.OutOfBandError(*err))
         self.readerr()
         try:
             l = int(l)