--- a/fetch/main.py	Sun Sep 18 10:48:19 2011 -0700
+++ b/fetch/main.py	Sun Sep 18 18:27:57 2011 -0700
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
     f.write(self.download(self.url))
     f.close()
 
+
 class TarballFetcher(FileFetcher):
   """fetch and extract a tarball"""
 
@@ -49,9 +50,13 @@
 class HgFetcher(Fetcher):
   """checkout a mercurial repository"""
 
+  type = 'hg'
+
 class GitFetcher(Fetcher):
   """checkout a git repository"""
 
+  type = 'git'
+
 fetchers = [FileFetcher]
 
 class Fetch(object):