branchmap: remove use of buffer() to support Python 2.6
The use of buffer() was added in 7359157b9e46 to support Python 2.6,
which we no longer support.
#if no-windows no-osx
$ mkdir -p xdgconf/hg
$ echo '[ui]' > xdgconf/hg/hgrc
$ echo 'username = foobar' >> xdgconf/hg/hgrc
$ XDG_CONFIG_HOME="`pwd`/xdgconf" ; export XDG_CONFIG_HOME
$ unset HGRCPATH
$ hg config ui.username
foobar
#endif