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narrow: intersect provided matcher with narrowmatcher in `hg diff`

This provides significant speedups when running diff, and no change in behavior
that I'm aware of (or that the tests found). I tested with a repo that I started
using narrow in after it was created and attempted to run `hg diff -c .` and
similar commands in it on a commit that had files not in the narrowspec.

Timing numbers below, using a similar setup as my previous commits.
before=9db85644, m-u is mozilla-unified at eb39298e432d (flatmanifest) and
0553b7f29eaf (treemanifest). l-d-r is a repo simulating a situation I've
encountered where there's one directory with 30k+ subdirectories. N means
narrow, T means treemanifest. The narrowspec is pretty small when in use, and
importantly the narrowspec is applied *after* doing the initial checkout
(without narrowing), so all of these files exist in the filesystem, which is not
normally the case if someone has been using narrow for the entire life of the
clone.

Anything less than a 5% difference in performance is most likely noise.

    diff --git:
    repo  | N | T | before (mean +- stdev) | after (mean +- stdev) | % of before
    ------+---+---+------------------------+-----------------------+------------
    m-u   |   |   | 1.292 s +-  0.009 s    | 1.295 s +-  0.010 s   | 100.2%
    m-u   |   | x | 1.296 s +-  0.042 s    | 1.299 s +-  0.026 s   | 100.2%
    m-u   | x |   | 1.292 s +-  0.010 s    | 1.297 s +-  0.021 s   | 100.4%
    m-u   | x | x | 84.2 ms +-   1.2 ms    | 83.6 ms +-   0.2 ms   |  99.3%
    l-d-r |   |   | 188.7 ms +-   2.7 ms   | 188.8 ms +-   2.0 ms  | 100.1%
    l-d-r |   | x | 189.9 ms +-   1.5 ms   | 189.4 ms +-   1.2 ms  |  99.7%
    l-d-r | x |   | 97.1 ms +-   1.0 ms    | 87.1 ms +-   1.0 ms   |  89.7% <--
    l-d-r | x | x | 96.9 ms +-   0.8 ms    | 87.2 ms +-   0.7 ms   |  90.0% <--

    diff -c . --git:
    repo  | N | T | before (mean +- stdev) | after (mean +- stdev) | % of before
    ------+---+---+------------------------+-----------------------+------------
    m-u   |   |   | 231.6 ms +-   3.1 ms   | 228.9 ms +-   1.6 ms  |  98.8%
    m-u   |   | x | 150.5 ms +-   1.7 ms   | 150.7 ms +-   1.4 ms  | 100.1%
    m-u   | x |   | 233.7 ms +-   2.4 ms   | 232.2 ms +-   1.9 ms  |  99.4%
    m-u   | x | x | 126.1 ms +-   1.2 ms   | 126.8 ms +-   1.2 ms  | 100.6%
    l-d-r |   |   | 82.1 ms +-   2.0 ms    | 81.8 ms +-   1.4 ms   |  99.6%
    l-d-r |   | x | 3.732 s +-  0.020 s    | 3.746 s +-  0.027 s   | 100.4%
    l-d-r | x |   | 83.1 ms +-   0.8 ms    | 107.6 ms +-   2.4 ms  | 129.5% <--
    l-d-r | x | x | 758.2 ms +-  38.8 ms   | 188.5 ms +-   1.8 ms  |  24.9% <--

    rebase -r . --keep -d .^^:
    repo  | N | T | before (mean +- stdev) | after (mean +- stdev) | % of before
    ------+---+---+------------------------+-----------------------+------------
    m-u   |   |   | 5.532 s +-  0.087 s    | 5.496 s +-  0.016 s   |  99.3%
    m-u   |   | x | 5.554 s +-  0.061 s    | 5.532 s +-  0.013 s   |  99.6%
    m-u   | x |   | 5.602 s +-  0.134 s    | 5.508 s +-  0.035 s   |  98.3%
    m-u   | x | x | 582.2 ms +-  15.2 ms   | 572.9 ms +-  12.0 ms  |  98.4%
    l-d-r |   |   | 629.5 ms +-  12.3 ms   | 622.5 ms +-   7.3 ms  |  98.9%
    l-d-r |   | x | 6.173 s +-  0.062 s    | 6.185 s +-  0.076 s   | 100.2%
    l-d-r | x |   | 274.5 ms +-  10.0 ms   | 272.1 ms +-   6.2 ms  |  99.1%
    l-d-r | x | x | 4.835 s +-  0.056 s    | 4.826 s +-  0.034 s   |  99.8%

    status --change . --copies:
    repo  | N | T | before (mean +- stdev) | after (mean +- stdev) | % of before
    ------+---+---+------------------------+-----------------------+------------
    m-u   |   |   | 214.4 ms +-   1.4 ms   | 212.2 ms +-   1.7 ms  |  99.0%
    m-u   |   | x | 130.9 ms +-   1.2 ms   | 131.7 ms +-   1.1 ms  | 100.6%
    m-u   | x |   | 215.0 ms +-   2.1 ms   | 214.9 ms +-   2.7 ms  | 100.0%
    m-u   | x | x | 109.5 ms +-   2.3 ms   | 107.8 ms +-   0.9 ms  |  98.4%
    l-d-r |   |   | 79.6 ms +-   0.9 ms    | 79.8 ms +-   1.6 ms   | 100.3%
    l-d-r |   | x | 3.799 s +-  0.037 s    | 3.928 s +-  0.021 s   | 103.4% <--?
    l-d-r | x |   | 82.7 ms +-   0.7 ms    | 83.2 ms +-   1.0 ms   | 100.6%
    l-d-r | x | x | 746.8 ms +-   6.1 ms   | 739.0 ms +-   4.2 ms  |  99.0%

    status --copies:
    repo  | N | T | before (mean +- stdev) | after (mean +- stdev) | % of before
    ------+---+---+------------------------+-----------------------+------------
    m-u   |   |   | 1.884 s +-  0.012 s    | 1.885 s +-  0.013 s   | 100.1%
    m-u   |   | x | 1.897 s +-  0.027 s    | 1.909 s +-  0.077 s   | 100.6%
    m-u   | x |   | 1.886 s +-  0.021 s    | 1.891 s +-  0.030 s   | 100.3%
    m-u   | x | x | 92.0 ms +-   0.7 ms    | 92.4 ms +-   0.4 ms   | 100.4%
    l-d-r |   |   | 570.3 ms +-  18.7 ms   | 552.2 ms +-   4.5 ms  |  96.8%
    l-d-r |   | x | 568.9 ms +-  16.1 ms   | 567.2 ms +-  11.9 ms  |  99.7%
    l-d-r | x |   | 171.1 ms +-   2.5 ms   | 170.4 ms +-   1.2 ms  |  99.6%
    l-d-r | x | x | 171.6 ms +-   3.4 ms   | 171.5 ms +-   1.7 ms  |  99.9%

    update $rev^; ~/src/hg/hg{hg}/hg update $rev:
    repo  | N | T | before (mean +- stdev) | after (mean +- stdev) | % of before
    ------+---+---+------------------------+-----------------------+------------
    m-u   |   |   | 3.107 s +-  0.017 s    | 3.116 s +-  0.012 s   | 100.3%
    m-u   |   | x | 2.943 s +-  0.010 s    | 2.945 s +-  0.019 s   | 100.1%
    m-u   | x |   | 3.116 s +-  0.033 s    | 3.118 s +-  0.027 s   | 100.1%
    m-u   | x | x | 318.5 ms +-   2.7 ms   | 320.8 ms +-   4.8 ms  | 100.7%
    l-d-r |   |   | 428.9 ms +-   4.4 ms   | 429.5 ms +-   4.0 ms  | 100.1%
    l-d-r |   | x | 9.593 s +-  0.081 s    | 9.869 s +-  0.043 s   | 102.9%
    l-d-r | x |   | 253.2 ms +-   3.6 ms   | 254.0 ms +-   2.8 ms  | 100.3%
    l-d-r | x | x | 1.613 s +-  0.009 s    | 1.630 s +-  0.017 s   | 101.1%

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D4587

Mercurial supports a functional language for selecting a set of
files.

Like other file patterns, this pattern type is indicated by a prefix,
'set:'. The language supports a number of predicates which are joined
by infix operators. Parenthesis can be used for grouping.

Identifiers such as filenames or patterns must be quoted with single
or double quotes if they contain characters outside of
``[.*{}[]?/\_a-zA-Z0-9\x80-\xff]`` or if they match one of the
predefined predicates. This generally applies to file patterns other
than globs and arguments for predicates. Pattern prefixes such as
``path:`` may be specified without quoting.

Special characters can be used in quoted identifiers by escaping them,
e.g., ``\n`` is interpreted as a newline. To prevent them from being
interpreted, strings can be prefixed with ``r``, e.g. ``r'...'``.

See also :hg:`help patterns`.

Operators
=========

There is a single prefix operator:

``not x``
  Files not in x. Short form is ``! x``.

These are the supported infix operators:

``x and y``
  The intersection of files in x and y. Short form is ``x & y``.

``x or y``
  The union of files in x and y. There are two alternative short
  forms: ``x | y`` and ``x + y``.

``x - y``
  Files in x but not in y.

Predicates
==========

The following predicates are supported:

.. predicatesmarker

Examples
========

Some sample queries:

- Show status of files that appear to be binary in the working directory::

    hg status -A "set:binary()"

- Forget files that are in .hgignore but are already tracked::

    hg forget "set:hgignore() and not ignored()"

- Find text files that contain a string::

    hg files "set:grep(magic) and not binary()"

- Find C files in a non-standard encoding::

    hg files "set:**.c and not encoding('UTF-8')"

- Revert copies of large binary files::

    hg revert "set:copied() and binary() and size('>1M')"

- Revert files that were added to the working directory::

    hg revert "set:revs('wdir()', added())"

- Remove files listed in foo.lst that contain the letter a or b::

    hg remove "set: listfile:foo.lst and (**a* or **b*)"