revlog: avoid an expensive string copy
This showed up in a statprof profile of "hg svn rebuildmeta", which
is read-intensive on the changelog. This two-line patch improved
the performance of that command by 10%.
syntax: glob
*.elc
*.orig
*.rej
*~
*.mergebackup
*.o
*.so
*.dll
*.pyd
*.pyc
*.pyo
*$py.class
*.swp
*.prof
\#*\#
.\#*
tests/.coverage*
tests/annotated
tests/*.err
tests/htmlcov
build
contrib/hgsh/hgsh
dist
doc/*.[0-9]
doc/*.[0-9].gendoc.txt
doc/*.[0-9].{x,ht}ml
MANIFEST
MANIFEST.in
patches
mercurial/__version__.py
mercurial.egg-info
Output/Mercurial-*.exe
.DS_Store
tags
cscope.*
i18n/hg.pot
locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/hg.mo
hgext/__index__.py
# files installed with a local --pure build
mercurial/base85.py
mercurial/bdiff.py
mercurial/diffhelpers.py
mercurial/mpatch.py
mercurial/osutil.py
mercurial/parsers.py
syntax: regexp
^\.pc/
^\.(pydev)?project
# hackable windows distribution additions
^hg-python26/
^hg.exe$
^hg.py$