wireproto: optimize handling of large batch responses Now that batch can be used by remotefilelog, the quadratic string copying this was doing was actually disastrous. In my local testing, fetching a 56 meg file used to take 3 minutes, and now takes only a few seconds.

cleanup: replace False identity testing with an explicit token object The recommended way to check default value (when None is not as option) is a token object. Identity testing to integer is less explicit and not guaranteed to work in all implementations.

devel: officially deprecate dirstate.write without transaction argument When we introduce the develwarning, we did not had an official deprecation API and infrastructure. We can now officially deprecate the old way with a version deadline.

devel: officially deprecate update without destination When we introduce the develwarning, we did not had an official deprecation API and infrastructure. We can now officially deprecate the old way with a version deadline.

devel: fix a typo in a deprecation warning Credit goes to Sean Farley for spotting it.

devel: officially deprecate old style revset When we introduce the develwarning, we did not had an official deprecation API and infrastructure. We can now officially deprecate the old way with a version deadline.

check-code: handle py3 open divergence open() really wants an encoding attribute

check-code: switch to opener

check-code: handle range/xrange divergence

check-code: fix py3 complaint about \NNN being invalid unicode