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rust-index: document safety invariants being upheld for every `unsafe` block

We've added a lot of `unsafe` code that shares Rust structs with Python.
While this is unfortunate, it is also unavoidable, so let's at least
systematically explain why each call to `unsafe` is sound.

If any of the unsafe code ends up being wrong (because everyone screws up
at some point), this change at least continues the unspoken rule of always
explaining the need for `unsafe`, so we at least get a chance to think.

Mercurial
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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
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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.