# HG changeset patch
# User Augie Fackler <raf@durin42.com>
# Date 2017-05-28 19:51:07
# Node ID 633c635a790ad75709e0e84256f4c1a1c7d27ca0
# Parent  d770a08ee9d9c23dc4e467ae50bf221d3d6304d2

help: work around textwrap.dedent() only working on strings

diff --git a/mercurial/help.py b/mercurial/help.py
--- a/mercurial/help.py
+++ b/mercurial/help.py
@@ -266,7 +266,8 @@ def makeitemsdoc(ui, topic, doc, marker,
             continue
         text = gettext(text)
         if dedent:
-            text = textwrap.dedent(text)
+            # Abuse latin1 to use textwrap.dedent() on bytes.
+            text = textwrap.dedent(text.decode('latin1')).encode('latin1')
         lines = text.splitlines()
         doclines = [(lines[0])]
         for l in lines[1:]: