setting a default for non-existent property

[John W. Eaton]

On  7-May-2009, Ben Abbott wrote:

| hmmm ... new problem :-(
| 
| hg pull http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave
| abort: error: nonnumeric port: ''

Is this still happening?  I see the following:

  segfault:899> hg pull
  pulling from ssh://hg.sv.gnu.org/octave
  searching for changes
  no changes found

jwe