windows: prevent bytes from being passed to registry APIs
There was a TortoiseHg bug report in this area[1], and from inspection, it looks
like passing `b""` as `valname` would fail to convert to unicode. The
underlying API allows both `""` and `NULL` to return the default value for the
key.
[1] https://foss.heptapod.net/mercurial/tortoisehg/thg/-/issues/5803
'''
Examples of useful python hooks for Mercurial.
'''
from mercurial import (
patch,
util,
)
def diffstat(ui, repo, **kwargs):
"""Example usage:
[hooks]
commit.diffstat = python:/path/to/this/file.py:diffstat
changegroup.diffstat = python:/path/to/this/file.py:diffstat
"""
if kwargs.get('parent2'):
return
node = kwargs['node']
first = repo[node].p1().node()
if 'url' in kwargs:
last = repo.changelog.tip()
else:
last = node
diff = patch.diff(repo, first, last)
ui.write(patch.diffstat(util.iterlines(diff)))