dirstate: speed up write by 50%.

dirstate: make parents() faster. This allows localrepository.status() to avoid reading all but the first 40 bytes of the dirstate in the common case of running "hg status".

localrepository.status: only acquire wlock if actually needed. This speeds up the common case of not needing to update the dirstate, and avoids the need to reload and parse the dirstate "just in case".

util._matcher: speed up regexp matching. In 4babaa52badf, Benoit made a change that substantially slows matching when a big .hgignore file is in play, because it calls into the regexp matching engine potentially hundreds of times per file to be matched. I've partly rolled back his change, so that we only call into the matcher once per file, but preserved the ability to report a meaningful error message if there's a syntax error in the regexp.

Merge with crew-stable

Merge with crew-stable

Work around problem where 'del os.environ["FOO"]' doesn't update environment. test-hook failed since changeset 949516072388 because of this on Solaris 8.

Use python instead of shell printf with \x for test-simplemerge-cmd Needed e.g. to be compatible with Solaris.

Merge with crew.

change tests to use simplemerge by default