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tags-fnode-cache: do not repeatedly open the filelog in a loop

While getting multiple hgtagsfnodecache entries, we were opening (and closing)
the `.hgtags` filelog for each iteration. The meant repeatedly reading and
parsing the version same information from disk. A quite costly operation.

We no longer do this, leading to a sizable improvement in `hg debugupdatecache`
run for an already warm repositories.

### data-env-vars.name           = mercurial-2018-08-01-zstd-sparse-revlog
  # benchmark.name               = debug-update-cache
  # benchmark.variants.pre-state = warm
before:  1.711778 seconds
after:   0.213229 seconds  (-87.54%)
  # data-env-vars.name           = pypy-2018-08-01-zstd-sparse-revlog
before:  4.010817 seconds
after:   0.381141 seconds  (-90.50%)
  # data-env-vars.name           = netbeans-2018-08-01-zstd-sparse-revlog
before: 13.574141
after:   1.023007 seconds  (-92.46%)
  # data-env-vars.name           = mozilla-central-2018-08-01-zstd-sparse-revlog
before: 18.884656
after:   1.465735 seconds  (-92.24%)
  # data-env-vars.name           = mozilla-try-2019-02-18-zstd-sparse-revlog
before: 88.924823
after:   6.511771 seconds  (-92.68%)

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.