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revset: use manifest.matches in _follow revset

The old _follow revset iterated over every file in the commit and checked if it
matched. For repos with large manifests, this could take 500ms. By switching to
use manifest.matches() we can take advantage of the fastpaths built in to
manifest.py that allows iterating over only the files in the matcher when it's a
simple matcher. This brings the time spent down from 500ms to 0ms during simple
operations like 'hg log -f file.txt'.

Mercurial's documentation is kept in reStructuredText format, which is
a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

It's also convertible to a variety of other formats including standard
UNIX man page format and HTML. You'll need to install Docutils:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

Use the Makefile in this directory to generate the man and HTML pages.