scmutil: avoid using basestring and add explicit handling of unicodes
This resolves some Python 3 defects, and I don't think it is a
meaningful behavior change in Python 2.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2611
#require execbit
b51a8138292a introduced a regression where we would mention in the
changelog executable files added by the second parent of a merge. Test
that that doesn't happen anymore
$ hg init repo
$ cd repo
$ echo foo > foo
$ hg ci -qAm 'add foo'
$ echo bar > bar
$ chmod +x bar
$ hg ci -qAm 'add bar'
manifest of p2:
$ hg manifest
bar
foo
$ hg up -qC 0
$ echo >> foo
$ hg ci -m 'change foo'
created new head
manifest of p1:
$ hg manifest
foo
$ hg merge
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
(branch merge, don't forget to commit)
$ chmod +x foo
$ hg ci -m 'merge'
this should not mention bar but should mention foo:
$ hg tip -v
changeset: 3:c53d17ff3380
tag: tip
parent: 2:ed1b79f46b9a
parent: 1:d394a8db219b
user: test
date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
files: foo
description:
merge
$ hg debugindex bar
rev offset length ..... linkrev nodeid p1 p2 (re)
0 0 5 ..... 1 b004912a8510 000000000000 000000000000 (re)
$ cd ..