It was easier to move both of these at once because repository
creation requires various variables and I didn't want to add
tons of arguments and code to init that will soon be deleted
anyway. We do add an extra argument so we can proxy values to the
_validaterepo() call. But this is minimally invasive.
Some callers of self._abort() were converted to just raise. Like
before, the _abort() call wasn't necessary because self._pipe*
aren't populated this early in the object's lifetime.
As part of this, various private attributes derived from the parsed
URL are no longer used. So we no longer set them.