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dirstate-v2: add check of parent/child nodes being related when writing

This stems from a corruption seen in a private repository. We're not sure
of the source of the corruption, and it's very possible that we're seeing
compounded effects of multiple writes on a corrupted dirstate.

Adding this check is not expensive in itself and large writes of the dirstate
are not common.

This change does not catch this problem at the root node, the next one will.

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
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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.