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rhg: internally, return a structured representation from hg cat

The purpose of this change is to make it possible to support limited templating in `hg cat`, so we could print separators between files etc.
The templating itself is not implemented yet, so this functionality is unused in `rhg cat`.
However, in our fork of hg we're implementing a slightly different command `hg jscat` which makes use of this.
So accepting this change will let us minimize the size of the patch we're maintaining on our side.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11679

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.

Notes for packagers
===================

Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.