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cat: increase perf when catting single files

Special case the single file case in hg cat. This allows us to avoid
parsing the manifest, which shaves 15% off hg cat perf. This is worth
it, since automation often uses hg cat for retrieving single files.

# node.py - basic nodeid manipulation for mercurial
#
# Copyright 2005, 2006 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

import binascii

nullrev = -1
nullid = "\0" * 20

# This ugly style has a noticeable effect in manifest parsing
hex = binascii.hexlify
bin = binascii.unhexlify

def short(node):
    return hex(node[:6])