util._matcher: speed up regexp matching. In 4babaa52badf, Benoit made a change that substantially slows matching when a big .hgignore file is in play, because it calls into the regexp matching engine potentially hundreds of times per file to be matched. I've partly rolled back his change, so that we only call into the matcher once per file, but preserved the ability to report a meaningful error message if there's a syntax error in the regexp.

#!/bin/sh
#
# Corrupt an hg repo with two pulls.
#

# create one repo with a long history
hg init source1
cd source1
touch foo
hg add foo
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do
    echo $i >> foo
    hg ci -m $i
done
cd ..

# create a third repo to pull both other repos into it
hg init version2
hg -R version2 pull source1 &
sleep 1

hg clone --pull -U version2 corrupted
wait
hg -R corrupted verify
hg -R version2 verify