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
# mock out util.makedate() to supply testable values
import os
from mercurial import pycompat
from mercurial.utils import dateutil
def mockmakedate():
filename = os.path.join(os.environ['TESTTMP'], 'testtime')
try:
with open(filename, 'rb') as timef:
time = float(timef.read()) + 1
except IOError:
time = 0.0
with open(filename, 'wb') as timef:
timef.write(pycompat.bytestr(time))
return (time, 0)
dateutil.makedate = mockmakedate