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dirstate-guard: remove the feature

The dirstate guard duplicated some of the logic already implemented in the
transaction (and now the changing_* context).

However the feature was incomplete, for example, living only in memory meant we
could not recover from the hardest crash. In addition this duplicated with the
transaction logic meant things could go out of sync or step on each other.

Removing the feature now that we no longer needs it seems the safest.

This directory is meant to cache artifacts useful for tests (such as bundle).

Those artifacts need to be cached because they are slow to regenerate on each
test but too large to be tracked within the repository. They are not expected
to change between each run and can be cached.

The `./scripts/` contains code to generate the artifact while the `cache`
directory contains resulting artifact.