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match: let regex match function return a boolean

Match function for regex pattern kind is built through
_buildregexmatch() and _buildmatch() using _rematcher() that returns a
re.match function, which either returns a match object or None. This
does not conform to Mercurial's matcher interface for __call__() or
exact(), which are expected to return a boolean value. We fix this by
building a lambda around _rematcher() in _buildregexmatch().

Accordingly, we update doctest examples to remove bool() calls that are
now useless.

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.