# HG changeset patch
# User Mads Kiilerich <mads@kiilerich.com>
# Date 1321398652 -3600
# Node ID e99facd2cd2a2045e692adc4fcff900c69d00626
# Parent  6eff984d8e76811f1ce129a424236abf0afaa191
help: it is 'file://localhost/', not 'file://local/'

The documentation has apparently always been wrong.

diff -r 6eff984d8e76 -r e99facd2cd2a mercurial/help/urls.txt
--- a/mercurial/help/urls.txt	Tue Nov 15 14:25:11 2011 -0600
+++ b/mercurial/help/urls.txt	Wed Nov 16 00:10:52 2011 +0100
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Valid URLs are of the form::
 
   local/filesystem/path[#revision]
-  file://local/filesystem/path[#revision]
+  file://localhost/filesystem/path[#revision]
   http://[user[:pass]@]host[:port]/[path][#revision]
   https://[user[:pass]@]host[:port]/[path][#revision]
   ssh://[user@]host[:port]/[path][#revision]