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pathencode: add a SHA-1 hash function

This will be used by an upcoming patch.

This calls out to the Python hash implementation.

An earlier version of this function implemented SHA-1 directly, but
the amount of extra code didn't seem like a good tradeoff compared
to the small big-picture increase in performance (long paths are
uncommon).

Mercurial's documentation is kept in reStructuredText format, which is
a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

It's also convertible to a variety of other formats including standard
UNIX man page format and HTML. You'll need to install Docutils:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

Use the Makefile in this directory to generate the man and HTML pages.