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windows: prevent bytes from being passed to registry APIs There was a TortoiseHg bug report in this area[1], and from inspection, it looks like passing `b""` as `valname` would fail to convert to unicode. The underlying API allows both `""` and `NULL` to return the default value for the key. [1] https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/tortoisehg/thg/-/issues/5803
author Matt Harbison <matt_harbison@yahoo.com>
date Mon, 13 Jun 2022 11:06:33 -0400
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1 Our full contribution guidelines are in our wiki, please see:
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3 https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ContributingChanges
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5 If you just want a checklist to follow, you can go straight to
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7 https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ContributingChanges#Submission_checklist
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9 If you can't run the entire testsuite for some reason (it can be
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10 difficult on Windows), please at least run `contrib/check-code.py` on
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11 any files you've modified and run `python contrib/check-commit` on any
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12 commits you've made (for example, `python contrib/check-commit
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13 273ce12ad8f1` will report some style violations on a very old commit).