Don't decode unicode strings.
This does not work with python2.3 and is probably not useful anyway with 2.4.
#!/bin/sh
set -e
mkdir test
cd test
echo foo>foo
hg init
hg addremove
hg commit -m "1"
hg verify
hg clone . ../branch
cd ../branch
hg co
echo bar>>foo
hg commit -m "2"
cd ../test
hg pull ../branch
hg verify
hg co
cat foo
hg manifest --debug