diff -r 1bd70d40ec57 -r 8ae88ed2a3b6 mercurial/localrepo.py
--- a/mercurial/localrepo.py	Mon Nov 27 20:55:50 2006 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/localrepo.py	Mon Nov 27 22:22:44 2006 +0100
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@
                 if not os.path.exists(path):
                     os.mkdir(path)
                 os.mkdir(self.path)
-                os.mkdir(self.join("data"))
             else:
                 raise repo.RepoError(_("repository %s not found") % path)
         elif create: