compat: initialize LC_CTYPE locale on all Python versions and platforms Previously, the LC_CTYPE locale was not initialized according to user settings on all Python versions (e.g. never on Python 2) and platforms (e.g. not on some Python < 3.8 on Windows). This broke e.g. non-ASCII filenames passed to the Subversion bindings on Python 2, resulting in error messages like "file:///tmp/a%C3%A4 does not look like a Subversion repository to libsvn version 1.14.0". The following command could be used to test this functionality. Adding it to the test suite would be pointless, as the locale is always set to "C" during test runs. @command(b'check_initial_codeset', norepo=True) def check_initial_codeset(ui): codeset1 = locale.nl_langinfo(locale.CODESET) locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '') codeset2 = locale.nl_langinfo(locale.CODESET) assert codeset1 == codeset2

merge with stable

merge: don't grab wlock when merging in memory I noticed this because we have an internal extension that does an in-memory rebase while holding only a repo lock, which resulted in a developer warning about the working copy lock being taken after the repo lock. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8665

pycompat: use os.fsencode() to re-encode sys.argv Historically, the previous code made sense, as Py_EncodeLocale() and fs.fsencode() could possibly use different encodings. However, this is not the case anymore for Python 3.2, which uses the locale encoding as the filesystem encoding (this is not true for later Python versions, but see below). See https://vstinner.github.io/painful-history-python-filesystem-encoding.html for a source and more background information. Using os.fsencode() is safer, as the documentation for sys.argv says that it can be used to get the original bytes. When doing further changes, the Python developers will take care that this continues to work. One concrete case where os.fsencode() is more correct is when enabling Python's UTF-8 mode. Py_DecodeLocale() will use UTF-8 in this case. Our previous code would have encoded it using the locale encoding (which might be different), whereas os.fsencode() will encode it with UTF-8. Since we don’t claim to support the UTF-8 mode, this is not really a bug and the patch can go to the default branch. It might be a good idea to not commit this to the stable branch, as it could in theory introduce regressions.