safehasattr: pass attribute name as string instead of bytes
This is a step toward replacing `util.safehasattr` usage with plain `hasattr`.
The builtin function behave poorly in Python2 but this was fixed in Python3.
These change are done one by one as they tend to have a small odd to trigger
puzzling breackage.
--- a/mercurial/subrepoutil.py Thu Feb 02 17:36:32 2023 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/subrepoutil.py Thu Feb 02 17:36:38 2023 +0100
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@
# type: (localrepo.localrepository) -> bytes
"""return path to this (sub)repo as seen from outermost repo"""
parent = repo
- while util.safehasattr(parent, b'_subparent'):
+ while util.safehasattr(parent, '_subparent'):
parent = parent._subparent
return repo.root[len(pathutil.normasprefix(parent.root)) :]