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lfs: add the ability to disable the usercache

While the usercache is important for real world uses, I've been tripped up more
than a couple of times by it in tests- thinking a file was being downloaded, but
it was simply linked from the local cache.  The syntax for setting it is the
same as for setting a null remote endpoint, and like that endpoint, is left
undocumented.

This may or may not be a useful feature in the real world (I'd expect any sane
filesystem to support hardlinks at this point).

Mercurial
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Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
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