D4244: stringutil: have buildrepr delegate to pprint for unknown types

[durin42 (Augie Fackler)]

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REVISION SUMMARY
  This stabilizes some revset reprs across Python 2 and 3.

REPOSITORY
  rHG Mercurial

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4244

AFFECTED FILES
  mercurial/utils/stringutil.py

CHANGE DETAILS

diff --git a/mercurial/utils/stringutil.py b/mercurial/utils/stringutil.py
--- a/mercurial/utils/stringutil.py
+++ b/mercurial/utils/stringutil.py
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
     elif callable(r):
         return r()
     else:
-        return pycompat.byterepr(r)
+        return pprint(r)
 
 def binary(s):
     """return true if a string is binary data"""



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