# HG changeset patch
# User Mads Kiilerich <madski@unity3d.com>
# Date 2014-07-18 17:01:37
# Node ID 22da5c75e660ccb4ebbd4773ed1fd25fc67d4e02
# Parent  dfdf6b1d38e9437ea7aeed0c5e8039395a6a5027

vcs: convert unicode revision strings to ascii before passing to Mercurial

diff --git a/kallithea/lib/vcs/backends/hg/repository.py b/kallithea/lib/vcs/backends/hg/repository.py
--- a/kallithea/lib/vcs/backends/hg/repository.py
+++ b/kallithea/lib/vcs/backends/hg/repository.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ from kallithea.lib.vcs.exceptions import
     RepositoryError, VCSError, TagAlreadyExistError, TagDoesNotExistError
 )
 from kallithea.lib.vcs.utils import (
-    author_email, author_name, date_fromtimestamp, makedate, safe_unicode
+    author_email, author_name, date_fromtimestamp, makedate, safe_unicode, safe_str,
 )
 from kallithea.lib.vcs.utils.lazy import LazyProperty
 from kallithea.lib.vcs.utils.ordered_dict import OrderedDict
@@ -429,6 +429,8 @@ class MercurialRepository(BaseRepository
 
         :param revision: str or int or None
         """
+        if isinstance(revision, unicode):
+            revision = safe_str(revision)
 
         if self._empty:
             raise EmptyRepositoryError("There are no changesets yet")