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revlog: recommit 49fd21f32695 with a fix for issue6528

`filelog.size` currently special cases two forms of metadata encoding:
- copy data via the parent order as flag bit
- censor data by peaking into the raw delta
All other forms of metadata encoding including the empty metadata block
are mishandled. In `basefilectx.cmp` the empty metadata block is
explicitly checked to compensate for this.

Restore 49fd21f32695, but disable it for filelog, so that the original
flag bit use contines to work. Document all this mess for now in
preparation of a proper rework.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11203

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.