diff -r 8197b395710e -r 4aa72cdf616f hgext/remotefilelog/shallowrepo.py
--- a/hgext/remotefilelog/shallowrepo.py	Tue Oct 08 19:35:30 2019 -0700
+++ b/hgext/remotefilelog/shallowrepo.py	Sun Oct 06 20:17:41 2019 -0700
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@
     repo.excludepattern = repo.ui.configlist(
         b"remotefilelog", b"excludepattern", None
     )
-    if not util.safehasattr(repo, b'connectionpool'):
+    if not util.safehasattr(repo, 'connectionpool'):
         repo.connectionpool = connectionpool.connectionpool(repo)
 
     if repo.includepattern or repo.excludepattern: