pycompat: add bytestr wrapper which mostly acts as a Python 2 str
This allows us to handle bytes in mostly the same manner as Python 2 str,
so we can get rid of ugly s[i:i + 1] hacks:
s = bytestr(s)
while i < len(s):
c = s[i]
...
This is the simpler version of the previous RFC patch which tried to preserve
the bytestr type if possible. New version simply drops the bytestr wrapping
so we aren't likely to pass a bytestr to a function that expects Python 3
bytes.
https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/612
$ hg init
$ mkdir src
$ echo a > src/a.c
$ hg ci -Ama
adding src/a.c
$ hg mv src source
moving src/a.c to source/a.c (glob)
$ hg ci -Ammove
$ hg co -C 0
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 1 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ echo new > src/a.c
$ echo compiled > src/a.o
$ hg ci -mupdate
created new head
$ hg status
? src/a.o
$ hg merge
merging src/a.c and source/a.c to source/a.c
0 files updated, 1 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ hg status
M source/a.c
R src/a.c
? src/a.o