--- a/mercurial/linelog.py	Tue Feb 04 12:07:37 2020 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/linelog.py	Thu Jan 02 11:04:18 2020 -0800
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@
         )
 
     def __repr__(self):
-        return b'<linelog at %s: maxrev=%d size=%d>' % (
+        return '<linelog at %s: maxrev=%d size=%d>' % (
             hex(id(self)),
             self._maxrev,
             len(self._program),