tests: do not use system hg if it does not have "files" command Ancient hg does not have "hg files" so test-check-*.t will fail with "unknown command 'files'": $ hg files hg: unknown command 'files' $ hg --version Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 2.6.2) Test "hg files" and give up using syshg if it does not have "files" command.

#!/usr/bin/env python

from __future__ import absolute_import, print_function

import errno
import os
import sys

for f in sys.argv[1:]:
    try:
        print(f, '->', os.readlink(f))
    except OSError as err:
        if err.errno != errno.EINVAL:
            raise
        print(f, '->', f, 'not a symlink')

sys.exit(0)