diff -r 4775fc1e04a8 -r a685011ed38e mercurial/repair.py
--- a/mercurial/repair.py	Fri Apr 09 15:16:52 2010 +0200
+++ b/mercurial/repair.py	Fri Apr 09 17:23:35 2010 -0500
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
 
     mfst = repo.manifest
 
-    tr = repo.transaction()
+    tr = repo.transaction("strip")
     offset = len(tr.entries)
 
     tr.startgroup()