tests/test-empty-file

hgfixes: add a fixer to convert plain strings to bytestrings

This patch implements a 2to3 fixer that converts all plain strings in a python
source file to byte strings syntax. Example:

foo = 'Normal string'

would become

foo = b'Normal string'

The motivation behind this fixer can be found in
http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2010-June/022363.html or, in other
words: the current hg source assumes that _most_ strings are "meant" to be byte
sequences, so it makes sense to make the convertion implemented by this patch.

As mentioned above, not all mercurial modules want to use strings as bytes,
examples include i18n (which uses unicode), and demandimport (in py3k, module
names are normal strings, thus unicode, and there's no need for a convertion).
Therefore, these modules are blacklisted in the fixer. There are also a few
functions that can take only unicode arguments, thus the convertion shouldn't
be done for those.

#!/bin/sh

hg init a
cd a
touch empty1
hg add empty1
hg commit -m 'add empty1' -d '1000000 0'

touch empty2
hg add empty2
hg commit -m 'add empty2' -d '1000000 0'

hg up -C 0
touch empty3
hg add empty3
hg commit -m 'add empty3' -d '1000000 0'

hg heads

hg merge 1
# before changeset 05257fd28591, we didn't notice the
# empty file that came from rev 1.
hg status
hg commit -m merge -d '1000000 0'
hg manifest --debug tip