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narrow: add '--import-rules' flag to tracked command

This patch adds a `--import-rules` flag to tracked command provided by narrow
extension. Using the --import-rules flag, you can pass a filename from which
narrowspecs should be read and added to main narrowspec.

A lot of times, in automation or manually also, when you are working with big
repo, specifying each path name on commandline using '--addinclude' and
'--addexclude' is tedious and something which can scale. So we needed something
where we can pass a file to extend the narrowspecs.

Nice thing about this is that the automations which reads some file to change
the sparse profile, can now read the same file for changing narrowspecs too.

Tests are added for the new feature.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4125

cHg
===

A fast client for Mercurial command server running on Unix.

Install:

 $ make
 $ make install

Usage:

 $ chg help                 # show help of Mercurial
 $ alias hg=chg             # replace hg command
 $ chg --kill-chg-daemon    # terminate background server

Environment variables:

Although cHg tries to update environment variables, some of them cannot be
changed after spawning the server. The following variables are specially
handled:

 * configuration files are reloaded automatically by default.
 * CHGHG or HG specifies the path to the hg executable spawned as the
   background command server.

The following variables are available for testing:

 * CHGDEBUG enables debug messages.
 * CHGSOCKNAME specifies the socket path of the background cmdserver.
 * CHGTIMEOUT specifies how many seconds chg will wait before giving up
   connecting to a cmdserver. If it is 0, chg will wait forever. Default: 60