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similar: compare between actual file contents for exact identity

Before this patch, similarity detection logic (for addremove and
automv) depends entirely on SHA-1 digesting. But this causes incorrect
rename detection, if:

  - removing file A and adding file B occur at same committing, and
  - SHA-1 hash values of file A and B are same

This may prevent security experts from managing sample files for
SHAttered issue in Mercurial repository, for example.

  https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha1-collision.html
  https://shattered.it/

Hash collision itself isn't so serious for core repository
functionality of Mercurial, described by mpm as below, though.

  https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/mpm/SHA1

This patch compares between actual file contents after hash comparison
for exact identity.

Even after this patch, SHA-1 is still used, because it is reasonable
enough to quickly detect existence of "(almost) same" file.

  - replacing SHA-1 causes decreasing performance, and
  - replacement of it has ambiguity, yet

Getting content of removed file (= rfctx.data()) at each exact
comparison should be cheap enough, even though getting content of
added one costs much.

  ======= ============== =====================
  file    fctx           data() reads from
  ======= ============== =====================
  removed filectx        in-memory revlog data
  added   workingfilectx storage
  ======= ============== =====================

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# An example hgweb CGI script, edit as necessary
# See also https://mercurial-scm.org/wiki/PublishingRepositories

# Path to repo or hgweb config to serve (see 'hg help hgweb')
config = "/path/to/repo/or/config"

# Uncomment and adjust if Mercurial is not installed system-wide
# (consult "installed modules" path from 'hg debuginstall'):
#import sys; sys.path.insert(0, "/path/to/python/lib")

# Uncomment to send python tracebacks to the browser if an error occurs:
#import cgitb; cgitb.enable()

from mercurial import demandimport; demandimport.enable()
from mercurial.hgweb import hgweb, wsgicgi
application = hgweb(config)
wsgicgi.launch(application)