# HG changeset patch
# User Bernhard F.W. Gschaider <bgschaid@hfd-research.com>
# Date 1537535229 -7200
# Node ID 6cc986fee28ee480a3d7e48d7d1d06941f41269a
# Parent  e15dc9e9cd5603f44467392174b7b723d678862c
The Mercurial 4.5 that comes with Ubuntu doesn't have this parameter

diff --git a/hgsubversion/svnrepo.py b/hgsubversion/svnrepo.py
--- a/hgsubversion/svnrepo.py
+++ b/hgsubversion/svnrepo.py
@@ -248,7 +248,10 @@ def instance(ui, url, create, intents=No
     if url.startswith('http://') or url.startswith('https://'):
         try:
             # may yield a bogus 'real URL...' message
-            return httppeer.instance(ui, url, create, intents=intents)
+            try:
+                return httppeer.instance(ui, url, create, intents=intents)
+            except TypeError:
+                return httppeer.instance(ui, url, create)   # old mercurial versions don'T have that parameter
         except error.RepoError:
             ui.traceback()
             ui.note('(falling back to Subversion support)\n')