Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas@intevation.de> [Tue, 16 May 2006 09:35:38 +0200] rev 2294
Catch urllib's HTTPException and give a meaningful error message to the user.
Usually urllib only throws HTTPError exceptions, which already are a subclass
of IOError.
add --config global option. allows to set hgrc option on command line.
syntax: --config section.name=value
also add new test-globalopts to test all global options in one place.