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rust: add `dirstate_tree` module

Mercurial needs to represent the filesystem hierarchy on which it operates, for
example in the dirstate. Its current on-disk representation is an unsorted, flat
structure that gets transformed in the current Rust code into a `HashMap`.
This loses the hierarchical information of the dirstate, leading to some
unfortunate performance and algorithmic compromises.

This module adds an implementation of a radix tree that is specialized for
representing the dirstate: its unit is the path component. I have made no
efforts to optimize either its memory footprint or its insertion speed: they're
pretty bad for now.

Following will be a few patches that modify the dirstate.status logic to use
that new hierarchical information, fixing issue 6335 in the same swing.

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D9085

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.