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narrow: allow merging non-conflicting change outside of the narrow spec

We use the mergestate to carry information about these merge action and
reprocess them at commit time to apply the necessary update.

The dirstate itself is never affected and remains "pure", with content only in
the narrow-spec. This file involved in such merge are therefor not listed in `hg
status`.

The current testing is based on a modification of the previous testing, that
refused to do such merges. As a result it is a bit simple and more extensive
code and testing testing will have to be introduced later. I am planning to do
this extra testing, soon.

In addition, this only works for flat manifest. Support for tree manifest will
need more work. I am not currently planning to do this work.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12119

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.