# HG changeset patch
# User Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org>
# Date 1159821337 -7200
# Node ID 394ac87f3b748fcb010d9bf91dd6249ca625900c
# Parent  35d61e6531742c6fec245e01300a8c403a7f8baf
[extendedchangelog] encode/decode function

encode '\n', '\r' and '\0'

diff --git a/mercurial/changelog.py b/mercurial/changelog.py
--- a/mercurial/changelog.py
+++ b/mercurial/changelog.py
@@ -10,6 +10,23 @@ from i18n import gettext as _
 from demandload import demandload
 demandload(globals(), "os time util")
 
+def _string_escape(text):
+    """
+    >>> d = {'nl': chr(10), 'bs': chr(92), 'cr': chr(13), 'nul': chr(0)}
+    >>> s = "ab%(nl)scd%(bs)s%(bs)sn%(nul)sab%(cr)scd%(bs)s%(nl)s" % d
+    >>> s
+    'ab\\ncd\\\\\\\\n\\x00ab\\rcd\\\\\\n'
+    >>> res = _string_escape(s)
+    >>> s == _string_unescape(res)
+    True
+    """
+    # subset of the string_escape codec
+    text = text.replace('\\', '\\\\').replace('\n', '\\n').replace('\r', '\\r')
+    return text.replace('\0', '\\0')
+
+def _string_unescape(text):
+    return text.decode('string_escape')
+
 class changelog(revlog):
     def __init__(self, opener, defversion=REVLOGV0):
         revlog.__init__(self, opener, "00changelog.i", "00changelog.d",
diff --git a/tests/test-doctest.py b/tests/test-doctest.py
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test-doctest.py
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#
+
+import doctest
+
+import mercurial.changelog
+# test doctest from changelog
+
+doctest.testmod(mercurial.changelog)
+