interfaces: introduce and use a protocol class for the `mpatch` module See f2832de2a46c for details when this was done for the `bdiff` module. Two things worth pointing out- 1) The `cffi` module "inherits" the `pure` implementation of `patchedsize()` because of its wildcard import. 2) It's odd that the `mpatchError` lives in both `pure` and `cext` modules. I initially thought to move the exception into the new class, and make the existing class name an alias to the class in the new location, but the exception is created in C code by the `cext` module, so that won't work. I don't think a protocol class is approriate, because there's nothing special about the class to distinguish from any other `Exception`. Fortunately, nobody is catching this exception in core, so we can kick the can down the road.

branching: merge stable into default

doctest: use the system hg to find the list of file to tests Same as what we do for the `.t` tests, but more manually.

relnotes: skip the test if the source repository is not readable The test want to run the relnot extension, with the tested mercurial, on the original repository. This is not always possible (e.g. when running with --pure and the repository use zstd for example). So we skip the test in this case.

check-code: document reason and suggest alternative to exit code negation The check was introduced in f48b075ff088. We trust the explanation from there.

ci: drop the HGMODULEPOLICY overwrite The test runner have been setting them properly for a while now. So we don't need to do it manually anymore.

test: preserve the existing module policy config for testrepohg resuse The test runner is, righfully, setting HGMODULEPOLICY to match the flavor requests to run the tests. However this mess with the `testrepohg` ability to run properly, as the newly set policy might be incompatible with its installation, or its ability to read the test repo. So we preserve the initial value in a dedicated variable and use it in the `testrepohg` helper.

module-policy: ignore empty module policy This make the variable easier to work with, the empty value is not ambiguous about not wanting to get in the way.

tests: provide an alternate fake lock for filesystems without symlink support

tests: disable `worker.backgroundclose` to stabilize a test on Windows TIL that `worker.enabled=0` doesn't prevent these workers from spinning up. At any rate, there's already a whole lot of conditionalized output following `cat client.log`, the placement of the "starting 4 threads for background file closing" message seems unstable, and we don't care about those worker threads here. Preventing the message is better for test maintenance.

tests: fix lock file path mangling in `test-racy-mutations.t` on Windows I guess `$TESTTMP_FORWARD_SLASH` gets translated by MSYS. This was in the `.foo_commit_out` file: sh: C;C:\\MinGW\\msys\\1.0\\Users\\Matt\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\hgtests.1qc8jmdl\\child2\\test-racy-mutations.t-skip-detection\\waitlock_editor.sh: $ENOENT

tests: stabilize `test-status-eacces.t` on Windows As noted earlier, `chmod` doesn't complain in MSYS, but also doesn't alter the file permissions such that they are unreadable. I'm guessing the other lines of output in this area that are gated on `rhg` (or not) will also need this, but I don't want to dig too deeply into something that is apparently working well enough.

run-tests: bump the default timeout on Windows to 4x the normal value There are a ridiculous number of tests that timeout on Windows with the 360 sec default (~60). And because of the bug where timed out tests still run to completion before the results are thrown away[1], the timeout does nothing but waste time, so there's no reason to try to find a lower value that still works. For reference on my system: # Ran 909 tests, 116 skipped, 119 failed. python hash seed: 2052473208 real 151m44.322s user 0m0.077s sys 0m0.046s [1] I thought that I wrote a bug for this, but search isn't finding it.

run-tests: bump the minimum python to 3.8 Presumably this was an oversight when hg was updated to 3.8.

tests: stabilize `test-sparse.t` on Windows One of the reserved characters for path values is '*', so it can't be used. Fortunately, missing this seems to not get in the way of any other tests, and it is removed shortly after with `rm -r foo*bar`, and the extant 'foo-bar' matches the pattern.

tests: fix a test hang on Windows when setting a debuglock I have no idea why, but running the `hg -R auto-upgrade debuglock --set-lock` command near the end of `test-upgrade-repo.t` hangs the test. It does background the process and `killdaemons.py` runs without error, but control doesn't return to `run-tests.py` until the process is manually killed. I did notice that `$!` in MSYS is *not* the PID of the process that got backgrounded, even when a simple `sleep 60 &` is run in MSYS without the *.t file. When `killdaemons.py` is run manually with the PID in ProcessExplorer, the backgrounded process terminates immediately, and returns control to `run-tests.py`. This looks like it would be a race, but the test waits 10s for the lock file to appear before attempting to kill the process, so there's time. `hg serve` has a `--pid-file` option to write the pid to the file, but this is only a debug command, so I'm not bothering with cluttering the command line.

tests: conditionalize `chmod` usage in `test-upgrade-repo.t` While the command itself doesn't error out on Windows, it also doesn't make the filesystem readonly. Therefore the repo gets altered to drop dirstate-v2, and puts it out of sync with that happens on Linux.

tests: print the actual timeout value used in `wait-on-file` Previously, it was printing the time passed in, prior to it being scaled up to account for a longer timeout.

tests: stabilize `test-transaction-wc-rollback-race.t` on Windows MSYS has a tendency to munge C:\Dir\SubDir\File into C:DirSubDirFile unless it is quoted, and that's what was happening here- there were a lot of these failures: file not created after 5 seconds: $TESTTMP/transaction-waiting I suspect quoting is only needed in the hook script that is generated (the catting of the log file pointed me in the right direction here), but I missed a spot and trial and error got me here. The quoting elsewhere doesn't harm anything and it was taking 7+ minutes to run this test when things were timing out, so I don't feel like reducing the quoting to the minimum required.

tests: stabilize `test-merge-partial-tool.t` on Windows The test was previously failing because it was opening the shell scripts being used as an executable in a text editor, and problems cascaded from there.

tests: replace `hg id --debug -i` command substitution with non-debug command The censor and convert tests were failing on Windows because the `--debug` flag also prints debug messages, and at least some of these were outputting: skip updating dirstate: identity mismatch ${node} Obviously that causes cascading problems. The other tests were OK, but it's better to use a non debug command for stability.

tests: correct Windows output to account for putting repos in `repo` subdir These were missed in 55c6ebd11cb9, due to being conditionalized and not running in CI.

tests: use pattern matching to mask `ECONNREFUSED` messages The second and third one of these in `test-http-proxy.t` was failing on Windows. The others were found by grep and by failed tests when output was matched and an attempt was made to emit the mask pattern. The first clonebundles failure on Windows emitted: error fetching bundle: [WinError 10061] $ECONNREFUSED$ We should probably stringify that better to get rid of the "[WinError 10061]" part.

typing: add stub functions for `cext/charencoding` I'm not sure if it's better to have a separate file, and currently pytype doesn't really know how to handle these, so it's no help in figuring that out. Technically, these methods are part of the `mercurial.cext.parsers` module, so put them into the existing stub until there's a reason to split it out.