diff -r cd00531ecc16 -r b77a2ef61b81 mercurial/localrepo.py
--- a/mercurial/localrepo.py	Fri Jun 16 10:19:45 2006 -0700
+++ b/mercurial/localrepo.py	Fri Jun 16 12:58:24 2006 -0700
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@
                 raise repo.RepoError(_("unknown revision '%s'") % key)
 
     def dev(self):
-        return os.stat(self.path).st_dev
+        return os.lstat(self.path).st_dev
 
     def local(self):
         return True