diff -r 3948cb4d0ae7 -r 8854ca3fa675 mercurial/templatekw.py
--- a/mercurial/templatekw.py	Tue Jul 07 19:07:04 2015 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/templatekw.py	Sat Mar 14 17:58:18 2015 +0900
@@ -355,6 +355,9 @@
 def showmanifest(**args):
     repo, ctx, templ = args['repo'], args['ctx'], args['templ']
     mnode = ctx.manifestnode()
+    if mnode is None:
+        # just avoid crash, we might want to use the 'ff...' hash in future
+        return
     args = args.copy()
     args.update({'rev': repo.manifest.rev(mnode), 'node': hex(mnode)})
     return templ('manifest', **args)