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bundlerepo: enforce the requirements declared by the underlying repository

Previously, `hg log -r 'bundle()' -R bundle.hg` was failing for me when run from
source, complaining about an unknown parent, when the system installed `hg`
didn't.  Some debugging showed the index was 0 length.  It turned out that I
didn't have the C extensions compiled, which a simple `hg log -r .` was able to
indicate.  The problem being that the RequirementError got handled by RepoError,
which uses an empty directory as a fallback to process the bundle.

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.