view tests/test-dirstate-backup.t @ 49317:709e5f7eec1f

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

Set up

  $ hg init repo
  $ cd repo

Try to import an empty patch

  $ hg import --no-commit - <<EOF
  > EOF
  applying patch from stdin
  abort: stdin: no diffs found
  [10]

No dirstate backups are left behind

  $ ls .hg/dirstate* | sort
  .hg/dirstate