safehasattr: pass attribute name as string instead of bytes
This is a step toward replacing `util.safehasattr` usage with plain `hasattr`.
The builtin function behave poorly in Python2 but this was fixed in Python3.
These change are done one by one as they tend to have a small odd to trigger
puzzling breackage.
Test issue2761
$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
$ touch to-be-deleted
$ hg add
adding to-be-deleted
$ hg ci -m first
$ echo a > to-be-deleted
$ hg ci -m second
$ rm to-be-deleted
$ hg diff -r 0
Same issue, different code path
$ hg up -C
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ touch does-not-exist-in-1
$ hg add
adding does-not-exist-in-1
$ hg ci -m third
$ rm does-not-exist-in-1
$ hg diff -r 1