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tests: avoid implicit conversion of str to unicode On Python 2, str.encode('ascii') implicitly converts the string to unicode and then back to str. Since the converted value is a path, _bytespath can be used instead.
author Manuel Jacob <me@manueljacob.de>
date Thu, 05 Mar 2020 18:19:21 +0100
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Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.