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test-chg: use a different log to avoid flakyness

The test was deleting the log file to start anew. However a trailing working
process might still be alive at this time, and recreate the very same log on
exit.

We see the trace of such worker in the expected content of server.log (see the
trace modified by this patch). This is flaky because we don't know *when* the
worker will write to the file and there is a race with the `hg init cached`
command.

A much simpler and reliable way to start anew without having such race is… to
write to a different log file. No reuse → no conflict, no conflict → no race, no
race → no flakiness.

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.