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diff: pass the diff matcher to the copy logic

This passes the existing diff matcher instance down to the copy logic so copy
tracing can be more efficient when possible and only trace copies for matching
files.

This only actually affects forwardcopies (i.e. Given A<-B<-C<-D, it works for
'hg diff -r B -r D foo.txt', but not for 'hg diff -r D -r B foo.txt') since
backward copies require walking all histories, and not just the individual
file's.

This reduces 'hg diff -r A -r B foo.txt' time from 15s to 1s when A and B have
80,000 files different.

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 http://mercurial.selenic.com/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.