annotate tests/artifacts/PURPOSE @ 51685:0eb515c7bec8

typing: add trivial type hints to the convert extension's common modules

This started as ensuring that the `encoding` and `orig_encoding` attributes has
a type other than `Any`, so pytype can catch problems where it needs to be str
for stdlib encoding and decoding.  It turns out that adding the hint in
`mercurial.encoding` is what was needed, but I picked a bunch of low hanging
fruit while here.  There's definitely more to do, and I see a problem where
`shlex.shlex` is being fed bytes instead of str, but there are not enough type
hints yet to make pytype notice.

This directory is meant to cache artifacts useful for tests (such as bundle).

Those artifacts need to be cached because they are slow to regenerate on each
test but too large to be tracked within the repository. They are not expected
to change between each run and can be cached.

The `./scripts/` contains code to generate the artifact while the `cache`
directory contains resulting artifact.