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dirstate-tree: Change status() results to not borrow DirstateMap

The `status` function takes a `&'tree mut DirstateMap<'on_disk>` parameter.
`'on_disk` borrows a read-only byte buffer with the contents of the
`.hg/dirstate` file. `DirstateMap` internally uses represents file paths as
`std::borrow::Cow<'on_disk, HgPath>`, which borrows the byte buffer when
possible and allocates an owned string if not, such as for files added to the
dirstate after it was loaded from disk.

Previously the return type of of `status` has a `'tree` lifetime, meaning it
could borrow all paths from the `DirstateMap`. With this changeset, that
lifetime is changed to `'on_disk` meaning that only paths from the byte buffer
can be borrowed, and paths allocated by `DirstateMap` must be copied.

Usually most paths are in the byte buffer, and most paths are not part of the
return value of `status`, so the number of extra copies should be small.

This change will enable `status` to mutate the `DirstateMap` after it has
finished constructing its return value. Previously such mutation would be
prevented by possible on-going borrows.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10824

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
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Notes for packagers
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provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
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to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.