diff -r 851bc33ff545 -r a679a364436a mercurial/localrepo.py
--- a/mercurial/localrepo.py	Thu Dec 15 15:40:14 2005 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/localrepo.py	Thu Dec 15 16:19:23 2005 +0100
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
         self.path = os.path.join(path, ".hg")
 
         if not create and not os.path.isdir(self.path):
-            raise repo.RepoError(_("repository %s not found") % self.path)
+            raise repo.RepoError(_("repository %s not found") % path)
 
         self.root = os.path.abspath(path)
         self.ui = ui