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Martin von Zweigbergk authored
When encoding long paths, the pure Python code strips the first
directory from the path, while the native code currently strips the
first 5 characters. This discrepancy has not been a problem so far,
since we have not stored anything in directories other than
data/. However, we will soon be storing submanifest revlogs in
metadata/, so the discrepancy will have to go [1]. Since file
collisions are avoided by the hashing alone (which is done on the full
unencoded path), it doesn't really matter whether we drop the first
dir, the first 5 characters, or special-case non-data/. To avoid
touching the C code, let's always strip the first 5 characters.

 [1] Or maybe elsewhere, but the discrepancy is ugly either way.
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