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match: resolve filesets in subrepos for commands given the '-S' argument

This will work for any command that creates its matcher via scmutil.match(), but
only the files command is tested here (both workingctx and basectx based tests).
The previous behavior was to completely ignore the files in the subrepo, even
though -S was given.

My first attempt was to teach context.walk() to optionally recurse, but once
that was in place and the complete file list was built up, the predicate test
would fail with 'path in nested repo' when a file in a subrepo was accessed
through the parent context.

There are two slightly surprising behaviors with this functionality.  First, any
path provided inside the fileset isn't narrowed when it is passed to the
subrepo.  I dont see any clean way to do that in the matcher.  Fortunately, the
'subrepo()' fileset is the only one to take a path.

The second surprise is that status predicates are resolved against the subrepo,
not the parent like 'hg status -S' is.  I don't see any way to fix that either,
given the path auditor error mentioned above.

Mercurial has the ability to add new features through the use of
extensions. Extensions may add new commands, add options to
existing commands, change the default behavior of commands, or
implement hooks.

To enable the "foo" extension, either shipped with Mercurial or in the
Python search path, create an entry for it in your configuration file,
like this::

  [extensions]
  foo =

You may also specify the full path to an extension::

  [extensions]
  myfeature = ~/.hgext/myfeature.py

See :hg:`help config` for more information on configuration files.

Extensions are not loaded by default for a variety of reasons:
they can increase startup overhead; they may be meant for advanced
usage only; they may provide potentially dangerous abilities (such
as letting you destroy or modify history); they might not be ready
for prime time; or they may alter some usual behaviors of stock
Mercurial. It is thus up to the user to activate extensions as
needed.

To explicitly disable an extension enabled in a configuration file of
broader scope, prepend its path with !::

  [extensions]
  # disabling extension bar residing in /path/to/extension/bar.py
  bar = !/path/to/extension/bar.py
  # ditto, but no path was supplied for extension baz
  baz = !