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amend: fix amend with copies in extras

If copy information is stored only in the commit extras and not in
filelogs, then they get lost on amend if the file wasn't also modified
in the working copy. That's because we create `filectx` object from
the old commit in those cases, and the `.copysource()` of such objects
read only from the filelog. This patch fixes it by always creating a
new `memfilectx` in these cases, passing the calculated copy
information to it.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D12387

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.