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ci: shard the test run on mac os X

This should comes with some benefit:
- spread the load across more runner,
- reduce the real-time CI run,
- reduce the "retry" run when we need them.

We start with the Mac jobs, but that would be tremendously useful for Windows
too.

For linux, we need to reduce the startup overhead for this to be worth it.
Building smaller image and speeding up clone should help with that.

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.