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linelog: add a Python implementation of the linelog datastructure

This datastructure was originally developed by Jun Wu at Facebook,
inspired by SCCS weaves. It's useful as a cache for blame information,
but also is the magic that makes `hg absorb` easy to implement. In
service of importing the code to Mercurial, I wanted to actually
/understand/ it, and once I did I decided to take a run at
implementing it.

The help/internals/linelog.txt document is the README from Jun Wu's
implementaiton. It all applies to our linelog implementation.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D3990

How to add fuzzers (partially cribbed from oss-fuzz[0]):

  1) git clone https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz
  2) cd oss-fuzz
  3) python infra/helper.py build_image mercurial
  4) docker run --cap-add=SYS_PTRACE -it -v $HG_REPO_PATH:/hg-new \
         gcr.io/oss-fuzz/mercurial bash
  5) cd /src
  6) rm -r mercurial
  7) ln -s /hg-new mercurial
  8) cd mercurial
  9) compile
  10) ls $OUT

Step 9 is literally running the command "compile", which is part of
the docker container. Once you have that working, you can build the
fuzzers like this (in the oss-fuzz repo):

python infra/helper.py build_fuzzers --sanitizer address mercurial $HG_REPO_PATH

(you can also say "memory", "undefined" or "coverage" for
sanitizer). Then run the built fuzzers like this:

python infra/helper.py run_fuzzer mercurial -- $FUZZER

0: https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/blob/master/docs/new_project_guide.md