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git: consistently use str for parents when rebuilding the index database

The tests show no changes, but when these values are overwritten shortly after
when a git commit object is available, that uses str.  It seems better to use
that for consistency.

It does materially affect the database though, because the old value stored was
`X'3030..3030'` and is now '00..00' when the changelog table is dumped in
sqlite3.  There is one query that specifies the parents, but it passes the non
null hashes as str, so it worked as expected.  That likely explains the lack of
test changes.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10527

This directory is meant to cache artifacts useful for tests (such as bundle).

Those artifacts need to be cached because they are slow to regenerate on each
test but too large to be tracked within the repository. They are not expected
to change between each run and can be cached.

The `./scripts/` contains code to generate the artifact while the `cache`
directory contains resulting artifact.