hg-stable: Changelog

parsers: remove long-dead parse_manifest method We haven't used this in years, I think it's fine to ditch it now. We had previously kept it around to ease bisecting with built extensions, but these days we've got a better versioning scheme anyway. Noticed this method kicking around while looking in parsers.so for likely fuzzing targets. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5459

help: hide default value for default-off flags If we no longer show the "[no-]" for default-off flags, it also seems unnecessary to show the "default: off" for them, since that's quite clearly the default. It's extra confusing for action flags like `hg bookmarks --delete`. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5455

help: show "[no-]" only for default-on Flags As Anton (av6) pointed out, the "[no-]" is confusing for action flags like `hg bookmark --delete`. We could come up with a way of indicating which flags are action flags (e.g. use None for the default value instead of False). However, it's probably also unlikely that users will want to negate even non-action flags like --hidden. One of the more common flags where the "[no-]" prefix would be useful is `hg evolve --update`. The reason it's helpful there is that it defaults to on. So I think we can simply include "[no-]" only for flags that are on by default (and thus require the user to add the "[no-]" for the option to have any effect). Note that there are use cases for negating flags that already off by default. For example, you may have an alias for `hg log -G --hidden -T foo` and now want to pass "--no-hidden" to that alias. However, I think that users who want that are likely to be advanced enough that they've already learnt about the "no-" prefix by seeing it somewhere else. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5454

shelve: drop unnecessary backup of narrowspec I mechanically added the backup code everywhere in ad24b581e4d9 (narrow: call narrowspec.{save,restore,clear}backup directly, 2018-08-03), but I can't think of a reason it would be needed in the shelve code, so let's drop it. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5457

shelve: pass transaction around to clarify where it's used Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D5456

py3: byteify docchecker The exception is printed as str because I'm too lazy to convert it and the pieces.

py3: replace hard coded `python` with $PYTHON in check-gendoc

py3: byteify gendoc.py This is mostly b'' prefixing, with some cargoculting of help.py to get around `textwrap.dedent()` and __doc__ string requirements.

py3: use bytes stdout in hghave.py This fixes a failure in test-run-tests.t around notarealhghavefeature. It seems crazy to me that all of this needs to be adjusted in all of these tests, but the line as run-tests.py sees it in _processoutput() before doing anything is already mangled with a trailing '\r'. Switching to normalizenewlines=True for TTest works, but I'm sure that breaks other stuff.