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dirstate-v2: adds a flag to mark a file as modified

Right now, a files with a file system state that requires a lookup (same size,
different mtime) will requires a lookup. If the result of that lookup is a
modified files, it will remains ambiguous, requiring a lookup on the next status
run too.

To fix this, we introduce a dedicated flag in the new format. Such flag will
allow to record such file as "known modified" avoiding an extra lookup later.

As None of the associate code currently exist in the status code, we do the
minimal implementation: if we read a dirstate entry with this flag set, we make
it as "ambiguous" so that the next status code has to look it up. The same as it
would have to without this flag existing anyway.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11681

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.