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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 accepts several notations for identifying one or more files
at a time.

By default, Mercurial treats filenames as shell-style extended glob
patterns.

Alternate pattern notations must be specified explicitly.

.. note::

  Patterns specified in ``.hgignore`` are not rooted.
  Please see :hg:`help hgignore` for details.

To use a plain path name without any pattern matching, start it with
``path:``. These path names must completely match starting at the
current repository root.

To use an extended glob, start a name with ``glob:``. Globs are rooted
at the current directory; a glob such as ``*.c`` will only match files
in the current directory ending with ``.c``.

The supported glob syntax extensions are ``**`` to match any string
across path separators and ``{a,b}`` to mean "a or b".

To use a Perl/Python regular expression, start a name with ``re:``.
Regexp pattern matching is anchored at the root of the repository.

To read name patterns from a file, use ``listfile:`` or ``listfile0:``.
The latter expects null delimited patterns while the former expects line
feeds. Each string read from the file is itself treated as a file
pattern.

All patterns, except for ``glob:`` specified in command line (not for
``-I`` or ``-X`` options), can match also against directories: files
under matched directories are treated as matched.

Plain examples::

  path:foo/bar   a name bar in a directory named foo in the root
                 of the repository
  path:path:name a file or directory named "path:name"

Glob examples::

  glob:*.c       any name ending in ".c" in the current directory
  *.c            any name ending in ".c" in the current directory
  **.c           any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of the
                 current directory including itself.
  foo/*.c        any name ending in ".c" in the directory foo
  foo/**.c       any name ending in ".c" in any subdirectory of foo
                 including itself.

Regexp examples::

  re:.*\.c$      any name ending in ".c", anywhere in the repository

File examples::

  listfile:list.txt  read list from list.txt with one file pattern per line
  listfile0:list.txt read list from list.txt with null byte delimiters

See also :hg:`help filesets`.