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cext: correct the argument handling of `b85encode()`

The type stub indicated that this argument is `Optional`, which implies None is
allowed.  I don't see in the documentation where that's the case for `i`[1], and
trying it in `hg debugshell` resulted in the method failing with a TypeError.  I
guess it was typed as an `int` argument because the `p` format unit wasn't added
until Python 3.3[2].

In any event, 2 clients in core (`pvec` and `obsolete`) call this with no
argument supplied, and `mdiff` calls it with True.  So I guess we've avoided the
None arg case, and when no arg is supplied, it defaults to the 0 initialization
of the `pad` variable in C.  Since the `p` format unit accepts both `int` and
None, as well as `bool`, I'm not bothering to bump the module version- this code
is more permissive than it was, in addition to being more correct.

Interestingly, when I first imported the `cext` and `pure` methods in the same
manner as the previous commit, it dropped the `Optional` part of the argument
type when generating `util.pyi`.  No idea why.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/arg.html#numbers
[2] https://docs.python.org/3/c-api/arg.html#other-objects

# `rhg`

The `rhg` executable implements a subset of the functionnality of `hg`
using only Rust, to avoid the startup cost of a Python interpreter.
This subset is initially small but grows over time as `rhg` is improved.
When fallback to the Python implementation is configured (see below),
`rhg` aims to be a drop-in replacement for `hg` that should behave the same,
except that some commands run faster.


## Building

To compile `rhg`, either run `cargo build --release` from this `rust/rhg/`
directory, or run `make build-rhg` from the repository root.
The executable can then be found at `rust/target/release/rhg`.


## Mercurial configuration

`rhg` reads Mercurial configuration from the usual sources:
the user’s `~/.hgrc`, a repository’s `.hg/hgrc`, command line `--config`, etc.
It has some specific configuration in the `[rhg]` section.

See `hg help config.rhg` for details.

## Installation and configuration example

For example, to install `rhg` as `hg` for the current user with fallback to
the system-wide install of Mercurial, and allow it to run even though the
`rebase` and `absorb` extensions are enabled, on a Unix-like platform:

* Build `rhg` (see above)
* Make sure the `~/.local/bin` exists and is in `$PATH`
* From the repository root, make a symbolic link with
  `ln -s rust/target/release/rhg ~/.local/bin/hg`
* Configure `~/.hgrc` with:

```
[rhg]
on-unsupported = fallback
fallback-executable = /usr/bin/hg
allowed-extensions = rebase, absorb
```

* Check that the output of running
  `hg notarealsubcommand`
  starts with `hg: unknown command`, which indicates fallback.

* Check that the output of running
  `hg notarealsubcommand --config rhg.on-unsupported=abort`
  starts with `unsupported feature:`.