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interactive: do not prompt about files given in command line

For commit and revert commands with --interactive and explicit files
given in the command line, we now skip the invite to "examine changes to
<file> ? [Ynesfdaq?]". The reason for this is that, if <file> is
specified by the user, asking for confirmation is redundant.

In patch.filterpatch(), we now use an optional "match" argument to
conditionally call the prompt() function when entering a new "header"
item. We use .exact() method to compare with files from the "header" in
order to only consider (rel)path patterns.

Add tests with glob patterns for commit and revert, to make sure we
still ask to examine files in these cases.

Mercurial's default format for showing changes between two versions of
a file is compatible with the unified format of GNU diff, which can be
used by GNU patch and many other standard tools.

While this standard format is often enough, it does not encode the
following information:

- executable status and other permission bits
- copy or rename information
- changes in binary files
- creation or deletion of empty files

Mercurial also supports the extended diff format from the git VCS
which addresses these limitations. The git diff format is not produced
by default because a few widespread tools still do not understand this
format.

This means that when generating diffs from a Mercurial repository
(e.g. with :hg:`export`), you should be careful about things like file
copies and renames or other things mentioned above, because when
applying a standard diff to a different repository, this extra
information is lost. Mercurial's internal operations (like push and
pull) are not affected by this, because they use an internal binary
format for communicating changes.

To make Mercurial produce the git extended diff format, use the --git
option available for many commands, or set 'git = True' in the [diff]
section of your configuration file. You do not need to set this option
when importing diffs in this format or using them in the mq extension.