--- a/contrib/mercurial.el	Wed Oct 20 17:06:42 2010 -0500
+++ b/contrib/mercurial.el	Wed Oct 20 18:15:47 2010 +0530
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
   :type 'string
   :group 'mercurial)
 
-(defcustom hg-outgoing-repository "default-push"
+(defcustom hg-outgoing-repository ""
   "The repository to which changes are pushed to by default.
 This should be a symbolic repository name, since it is used for all
 repository-related commands."