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localrepo: make restoring from backup at rollback avoid ambiguity of file stat

Rollback of previous transaction restores contents of files below by
renaming from 'undo.*' file. If renaming keeps ctime, mtime and size
of a file, restoring is overlooked, and old contents cached before
restoring isn't invalidated as expected.

  - .hg/bookmarks
  - .hg/phaseroots

To avoid ambiguity of file stat at restoring, this patch invokes
vfs.rename() with checkambig=True.

BTW, .hg/dirstate is also restored at rollback. But it is restored by
dirstate.restorebackup(), and previous patch already made it invoke
vfs.rename() with checkambig=True.

This patch is a part of "Exact Cache Validation Plan":

    https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ExactCacheValidationPlan

Mercurial supports a functional language for selecting a set of
files.

Like other file patterns, this pattern type is indicated by a prefix,
'set:'. The language supports a number of predicates which are joined
by infix operators. Parenthesis can be used for grouping.

Identifiers such as filenames or patterns must be quoted with single
or double quotes if they contain characters outside of
``[.*{}[]?/\_a-zA-Z0-9\x80-\xff]`` or if they match one of the
predefined predicates. This generally applies to file patterns other
than globs and arguments for predicates.

Special characters can be used in quoted identifiers by escaping them,
e.g., ``\n`` is interpreted as a newline. To prevent them from being
interpreted, strings can be prefixed with ``r``, e.g. ``r'...'``.

There is a single prefix operator:

``not x``
  Files not in x. Short form is ``! x``.

These are the supported infix operators:

``x and y``
  The intersection of files in x and y. Short form is ``x & y``.

``x or y``
  The union of files in x and y. There are two alternative short
  forms: ``x | y`` and ``x + y``.

``x - y``
  Files in x but not in y.

The following predicates are supported:

.. predicatesmarker

Some sample queries:

- Show status of files that appear to be binary in the working directory::

    hg status -A "set:binary()"

- Forget files that are in .hgignore but are already tracked::

    hg forget "set:hgignore() and not ignored()"

- Find text files that contain a string::

    hg files "set:grep(magic) and not binary()"

- Find C files in a non-standard encoding::

    hg files "set:**.c and not encoding('UTF-8')"

- Revert copies of large binary files::

    hg revert "set:copied() and binary() and size('>1M')"

- Remove files listed in foo.lst that contain the letter a or b::

    hg remove "set: 'listfile:foo.lst' and (**a* or **b*)"

See also :hg:`help patterns`.