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dirstate-v2: Separate HAS_FILE_MTIME and HAS_DIRECTORY_MTIME flags

Previously the same flag was used, with its meaning based on whether the node
otherwise identifies a file tracked anywhere.

In addition to being more explicit, this enables storing a directory mtime
if a given path used to be tracked in a parent commit (so the dirstate still
has data about it) but became a directory in the working copy.
(However this is not done yet as it would require a larger change,
replacing the `dirstate_map::NodeData` enum with struct fields.)

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11662

Mercurial
=========

Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install::

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing::

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See https://mercurial-scm.org/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.

Notes for packagers
===================

Mercurial ships a copy of the python-zstandard sources. This is used to
provide support for zstd compression and decompression functionality. The
module is not intended to be replaced by the plain python-zstandard nor
is it intended to use a system zstd library. Patches can result in hard
to diagnose errors and are explicitly discouraged as unsupported
configuration.