mergestate: move staticmethod _filectxorabsent to module level I suspect this was a static method just because it made merge.py feel less messy, but now we have a mergestate package so we can do better. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8591

rust: remove support for `re2` With the performance issues with `regex` figured out and fixed in previous patches and `regex` newly gaining support for empty alternations, there is no reason to keep `re2` around anymore. It's only *marginally* faster at creating the regex which saves at most a couple of ms, but gets beaten by `regex` in every other aspect. This removes the Rust/C/C++ bridge (hooray!), the `with-re2` feature, the conditional code that goes with it, the documentation and relevant part of the debug/module output. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8594

rust-dependencies: update `regex` to 1.3.9 Version `1.3.8` introduces support for empty alternations, which makes previously disallowed patterns usable in `regex`. From a user's perspective, this means that glob patterns like `*.py{,c}` will no longer generate an "invalid" regex and will use the Rust path. `1.3.9` is a bugfix release, might as well update to the latest one. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D8593

cleanup: remove compatibility code for Python < 2.7.4 The minimum supported Python version was recently raised to 2.7.4.

cleanup: eliminate procutil.quotecommand() After some compatibility code was removed, the function was the identity function on all platforms.

cleanup: remove compatibility code for Python < 2.7.1 The minimum supported Python version was recently raised to 2.7.4.