performance: do not stat() things when not required
Ignore unknown files if we don't need them (eg in hg diff).
It slows things down a little bit for big trees (kernel repo), since _join()
is called for each file instead of for each directory.
fix issue567
% should fail
abort: path contains illegal component: .hg/00changelog.i
adding a/a
% should fail
abort: path 'b/b' traverses symbolic link 'b'
% should succeed
% should still fail - maybe
abort: path 'b/b' traverses symbolic link 'b'