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rust: Remove DirstateMap::file_fold_map

This was a HashMap constructed on demand and then cached in the DirstateMap
struct to avoid reconstructing at the next access. However the only use is
in Python bindings converting it to a PyDict. That method in turn is wrapped
in a @cachedproperty in Python code.

This was two redudant layers of caching. This changeset removes the Rust-level
one to keep the Python dict cache, and have bindings create a PyDict by
iterating.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10493

Octopus Merge Support
=====================

This will be moderately complicated, as we'll need to synthesize phony
changeset entries to explode the octopus into "revisions" that only
have two parents each. For today, we can probably just do something like

    aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaXX{20 bytes of exploded node's hex sha}

where XX is a counter (so we could have as many as 255 parents in a
git commit - more than I think we'd ever see.) That means that we can
install some check in this extension to disallow checking out or
otherwise interacting with the `aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa` revisions.


Interface Creation
====================

We at least need an interface definition for `changelog` in core that
this extension can satisfy, and again for `basicstore`.


Reason About Locking
====================

We should spend some time thinking hard about locking, especially on
.git/index etc. We're probably adequately locking the _git_
repository, but may not have enough locking correctness in places
where hg does locking that git isn't aware of (notably the working
copy, which I believe Git does not lock.)