exchange: trivial simplification Both sides of the condition do essentially the same thing, except one with fastpath=True. No functional changes.

import: fix erroneous comparison of str with bytes

histedit: create state and acquire locks earlier This makes chistedit (histedit with curses UI) not write any files inside repo without wlock. It also makes sense to wrap the entire process of preparing commands inside the curses UI inside locks because we don't want anything else to touch wdir or repo during this time.

py3: use str literal instead of bytes literal

typing: fix type annotation

cffi: pass bytes instead of str to ffi.new("char[]", …) The type annotations seem to imply that the passed values are always already bytes, but they aren’t necessarily. Before Python 3.11, the documentation stated that bytes can be used to annotate arguments whose type is actually any of bytes, bytearray, or memoryview.

cffi: call bytes() instead of str() on CFFI buffer instances

cffi: pass C type and attribute names as str instead of bytes

py3: fix type of some elements of __all__ lists

manifest: deprecated readdelta and readfast These method should not have any user left.