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vfs: add a `register_file` method on the vfs class

This is used by the fncache vfs to register new file. Until now, `fncache` have
been doing this "automatically" by monitoring write pattern. However this is
fragile and when we copy files in place by other means, we need something more
robuts. So we add an explicit method to do so.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10851

Mercurial
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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
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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.