hooks: always convert unicode to byte strings when passed to ui.status Kallithea generally uses unicode strings internally, but ui.status follows the Mercurial convention and expects a byte string. Strings passed to ui.status should thus always by converted to byte strings. Do that explicitly with safe_str. (The alternative of using more byte strings internally seems less appealing.)

[pytest]
# only look for tests in kallithea/tests
python_files = kallithea/tests/**/test_*.py
addopts =
    # --verbose
    # show extra test summary info as specified by chars (f)ailed, (E)error, (s)skipped, (x)failed, (X)passed, (w)warnings.
    -rfEsxXw
    # Shorter scrollbacks; less stuff to scroll through
    --tb=short