lfs: factor out a method for extracting the pointer of a single file
This will be useful for filesets, among other things, instead of traversing the
whole context.
#if no-windows no-osx
$ mkdir -p xdgconf/hg
$ echo '[ui]' > xdgconf/hg/hgrc
$ echo 'username = foobar' >> xdgconf/hg/hgrc
$ XDG_CONFIG_HOME="`pwd`/xdgconf" ; export XDG_CONFIG_HOME
$ unset HGRCPATH
$ hg config ui.username 2>/dev/null
foobar
#endif