pycompat: add helper to iterate each char in bytes

branchmap: fix python 2.6 by using util.buffer() instead of passing bytearray

rebase: allow rebasing children of wd to wd if a new branch has been set (BC) The named branch of the leaf changeset can be changed by updating to it, setting the branch, and amending. But previously, there was no good way to *just* change the branch of several linear changes. If rebasing changes with another parent to '.', it would pick up a pending branch change up. But when rebasing changes that have the same parent, it would fail with 'nothing to rebase', even when the branch name was set differently. To fix this, allow rebasing to same parent when a branch has been set.

merge: check current wc branch for 'nothing to merge', not its p1 The working directory will usually be clean or very clean, and wc will usually have the same branch as its parent. This change will thus usually not make any difference and is done as a separate change to show that. It will be used in a later change.

lock: do not encode result of gethostname on Python 2 If a hostname contained non-ascii character, str.encode() would first try to decode it to a unicode and raise UnicodeDecodeError.

py3: prove `hg files --rev` works

tests: make a variable for hg binary location in test-check-py3-commands The number of which calls in here is starting to get silly.

lock: encode result of gethostname into a bytestring

config: avoid using a mutable default Nothing *currently* mutates this list, but the moment something does it'll be shared between all config instances. Avoid this eventuality.

localrepo: deprecate 'repo.join' in favor of 'repo.vfs.join' localrepo have an insane amount of method. Accessing the feature through the vfs is not really harder and allow us to schedule that method for removal.