diff -r 3464f5e77f34 -r ff06fe0703ef mercurial/statichttprepo.py
--- a/mercurial/statichttprepo.py	Wed Oct 18 22:38:23 2006 -0500
+++ b/mercurial/statichttprepo.py	Mon Oct 23 17:12:20 2006 -0500
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
         self.ui = ui
         self.revlogversion = 0
         self.opener = opener(self.path)
+        self.sopener = opener(self.path)
         self.manifest = manifest.manifest(self.opener)
         self.changelog = changelog.changelog(self.opener)
         self.tagscache = None