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delta-find: explicitly deal with usage of the cached revision

We can remove this from the general logic path and directly deal with this
corner case early.

This result in a small change in test-generaldelta.t as it turns out that:

- at commit time we (sometimes) precompute a delta against p1 and pass it as the
  cached delta.
- since cached delta where going through the same filtering as everything, we
  could "optimize" the base if it applied to an empty delta, resulting in not
  using the pre-computed delta.

The simpler logic fix the second item, making the cached delta base always actually
tested when requested.

Note that the computation of a fast delta against p1 only is questionable, but
looking into that is out of scope for this series.

Mercurial
=========

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
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.

Notes for packagers
===================

Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.