# HG changeset patch
# User Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org>
# Date 1510400155 -32400
# Node ID 22767a1e61acff3521c0b84589546906274cdbcf
# Parent  32e8d51ec16c7e8899797d2e7cd9b2995f364499
client: make it robust for weird repository path

diff -r 32e8d51ec16c -r 22767a1e61ac hglib/client.py
--- a/hglib/client.py	Sat Nov 11 19:52:48 2017 +0900
+++ b/hglib/client.py	Sat Nov 11 20:35:55 2017 +0900
@@ -46,8 +46,16 @@
         self._args = [hglib.HGPATH, 'serve', '--cmdserver', 'pipe',
                 '--config', 'ui.interactive=True']
         if path:
-            self._args += ['-R', path]
+            # perhaps path shouldn't be a unicode string, but accepted for
+            # backward compatibility.
+            if isinstance(path, str):
+                # py2: bytes + bytes, py3: unicode + unicode
+                self._args += ['-R' + path]
+            else:
+                # py2: (ascii) bytes + unicode, py3: bytes + bytes
+                self._args += [b('-R') + path]
         if configs:
+            # don't use "--config=<value>" form for hg 1.9 compatibility
             for config in configs:
                 self._args += ['--config', config]
         self._env = {'HGPLAIN': '1'}