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completion: add a debugpathcomplete command

The bash_completion code uses "hg status" to generate a list of
possible completions for commands that operate on files in the
working directory. In a large working directory, this can result
in a single tab-completion being very slow (several seconds) as a
result of checking the status of every file, even when there is no
need to check status or no possible matches.

The new debugpathcomplete command gains performance in a few simple
ways:

* Allow completion to operate on just a single directory. When used
  to complete the right commands, this considerably reduces the
  number of completions returned, at no loss in functionality.

* Never check the status of files. For completions that really must
  know if a file is modified, it is faster to use status:

  hg status -nm 'glob:myprefix**'

Performance:

Here are the commands used by bash_completion to complete, run in
the root of the mozilla-central working dir (~77,000 files) and
another repo (~165,000 files):

All "normal state" files (used by e.g. remove, revert):

                            mozilla    other
  status -nmcd 'glob:**'       1.77     4.10 sec
  debugpathcomplete -f -n      0.53     1.26
  debugpathcomplete -n         0.17     0.41

("-f" means "complete full paths", rather than the current directory)

Tracked files matching "a":

                            mozilla    other
  status -nmcd 'glob:a**'      0.26     0.47
  debugpathcomplete -f -n a    0.10     0.24
  debugpathcomplete -n a       0.10     0.22

We should be able to further improve completion performance once
the critbit work lands. Right now, our performance is limited by
the need to iterate over all keys in the dirstate.

#
# tcsh completion for Mercurial
#
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# Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.7.5+157-8a220ae0b2ba)
#
# Copyright (C) 2005 TK Soh.
#
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# the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
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complete hg \
  'n/--cwd/d/' 'n/-R/d/' 'n/--repository/d/' \
  'C/-/( -R --repository \
    --cwd \
    -y --noninteractive \
    -q --quiet \
    -v --verbose \
    --config \
    --debug \
    --debugger \
    --encoding \
    --encodingmode \
    --traceback \
    --time \
    --profile \
    --version \
    -h --help)/' \
  'p/1/(add addremove annotate blame archive \
    backout bisect bookmarks branch branches \
    bundle cat clone commit ci \
    copy cp debugancestor debugbuilddag debugcheckstate \
    debugcommands debugcomplete debugdag debugdata debugdate \
    debugfsinfo debugignore debugindex debugindexdot debuginstall \
    debugpushkey debugrebuildstate debugrename debugrevspec debugsetparents \
    debugstate debugsub debugwalk diff export \
    forget grep heads help identify \
    id import patch incoming in \
    init locate log history manifest \
    merge outgoing out parents paths \
    pull push recover remove rm \
    rename move mv resolve revert \
    rollback root serve showconfig debugconfig \
    status st summary sum tag \
    tags tip unbundle update up \
    checkout co verify version)/'