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compare grep result between target and its parent

I found that typical case is that grep target is added at (*) revision
in the tree shown below.

     +--- 1(*) --- 3
     0
     +--- 2 ------ 4

Now, I expect 'hg grep --all' to show only rev:1 which is first
appearance of target line.

But 'hg grep --all' will tell:

  target line dis-appeared at 3 => 4
  target line     appeared at 2 => 3
  target line dis-appeared at 1 => 2
  target line     appeared at 0 => 1

because current 'hg grep' implementation compares not between target
revision and its parent, but between neighbor revisions in walkthrough
order.

I checked performance of this patch by "hg grep --follow --all
walkchangerevs" on whole Mercurial repo, and patched version could
complete as fast as un-patched one.

#!/bin/sh

echo "[extensions]" >> $HGRCPATH
echo "color=" >> $HGRCPATH

hg init repo
cd repo
cat > a <<EOF
c
c
a
a
b
a
a
c
c
EOF
hg ci -Am adda
cat > a <<EOF
c
c
a
a
dd
a
a
c
c
EOF

echo '% default context'
hg diff --nodates --color=always

echo '% --unified=2'
hg diff --nodates -U 2  --color=always