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bash_completion: small optimization

Right now we always call "hg help $cmd" to get the canonical name of $cmd
(i.e. to go from "co" to "update").

This patch optimistically assumes that $cmd is already the canonical form
and tries to generate completions for it.  If that fails, it falls back
to canonicalizing $cmd and trying again.

This means that:

- if a command or alias is explicitly handled by the
  _hg_command_specific function, things get somewhat faster

- as long as the canonical $cmd is handled by _hg_command_specific, all
  its aliases and abbreviations are also handled.

A simple testing framework

To run the tests, do:

cd tests/
./run-tests

This finds all scripts in the test directory named test-* and executes
them. The scripts can be either shell scripts or Python. Each test is
run in a temporary directory that is removed when the test is complete.

A test-<x> succeeds if the script returns success and its output
matches test-<x>.out. If the new output doesn't match, it is stored in
test-<x>.err.

There are some tricky points here that you should be aware of when
writing tests:

- hg commit and hg up -m want user interaction

  for commit use -m "text"
  for hg up -m, set HGMERGE to something noninteractive (like true or merge)

- changeset hashes will change based on user and date which make
  things like hg history output change

  use commit -m "test" -u test -d "1000000 0"

- diff will show the current time

  use hg diff | sed "s/\(\(---\|+++\) [a-zA-Z0-9_/.-]*\).*/\1/" to strip
  dates