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checkcopies: add a sanity check against false-positive copies

When grafting a copy backwards through a rename, a copy is wrongly detected,
which causes the graft to be applied inappropriately, in a destructive way.
Make sure that the old file name really exists in the common ancestor,
and bail out if it doesn't.

This fixes the aggravated case of bug 5343, although the basic issue
(failure to duplicate the copy information) still occurs.

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.