transaction: tests we don't overwrite branch changes on abort We actually do not! Great. …Why are doing a backup of the `branch` files at transaction creation then‽

transaction: tests we don't overwrite tracking to changed file on abort spoiler: we do…

transaction: the base of a new test file checking transaction abort issue See inline documentation for details. See other changesets for actual cases.

setup: support building from an ongoing merge Before this change the two parents from the merge would duplicate some command output and modify some others in a way python 3.11 chokes on.

rhg: in path_encode, simplify a bit more Use the slices for `basename` and `ext` instead of dealing with offsets.

rhg: in path_encode, be a bit more conservative about memory usage Use [shrink_to_fit] to match the previous behavior more closely, and potentially save (a tiny bit) of memory. FWIW, I suspect this is unnecessary, but this whole MR is about simplifying things while preserving any existing optimizations.

rhg: small refactor: stop using a magical constant "+ 1" Instead, directly do what the "+ 1" was supposed to achive: call hash_encode.

rhg: in path_encode, use Vec directly instead of VecDest No need to have a trivial wrapper over the type. There's nothing confusing about vec.write_bytes(...), after all.

rhg: in path_encode, split Dest into VecDest and MeasureDest Two separate types make the write semantics easier to understand because we can consider the two sinks separately. Having two independent compiled functions for size measurement and for actual encoding seems likely to improve performance, too. (and maybe we should get rid of measurement altogether) Getting rid of [Dest] also removes the ugly option rewrapping code, which is good.

rhg: use generic DestArr in hash_mangle This simplifies code a bit more, but comes with an extra memory copy in case [destlen == dest_vec.len()]. This is probably fine, but a follow-up change is removing that too.