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rhg: make it possible to opt out of `rhg cat`

The reason an opt-out is needed is that there are still behavior
differences between `rhg cat` and `hg cat`:

- it does not interpret relative paths correctly
- it does not interpret patterns correctly, e.g. 're:foobar$' would be interpreted as a verbatim filename
- it does not implement the correct semantics of relpath matcher: if given a directory, `hg` concatenates all files in this directory, while `rhg` simply complains

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11723

cHg
===

A fast client for Mercurial command server running on Unix.

Install:

 $ make
 $ make install

Usage:

 $ chg help                 # show help of Mercurial
 $ alias hg=chg             # replace hg command
 $ chg --kill-chg-daemon    # terminate background server

Environment variables:

Although cHg tries to update environment variables, some of them cannot be
changed after spawning the server. The following variables are specially
handled:

 * configuration files are reloaded automatically by default.
 * CHGHG or HG specifies the path to the hg executable spawned as the
   background command server.

The following variables are available for testing:

 * CHGDEBUG enables debug messages.
 * CHGSOCKNAME specifies the socket path of the background cmdserver.
 * CHGTIMEOUT specifies how many seconds chg will wait before giving up
   connecting to a cmdserver. If it is 0, chg will wait forever. Default: 60

Build environment variables:

 * HGPATH: the path to the hg executable to call when CHGHG and HG are not set,
   instead of "hg"
 * HGPATHREL=1: when CHGHG and HG are not set, the hg executable will be ./hg
   relative to the chg executable. Only works on linux, falls back to "hg"
   otherwise.