… that has the contents of the .hg/dirstate file.
This only applies to the tree-based flavor of DirstateMap.
For now only the entire &[u8] slice is stored, so this is not useful yet.
Adding a lifetime parameter to the DirstateMap struct (in hg-core) makes
Python bindings non-trivial because we keep that struct in a Python object
that has a dynamic lifetime tied to Python’s reference-counting and GC.
As long as we keep the PyBytes that owns the borrowed bytes buffer next to
the borrowing struct, the buffer will live long enough for the borrows to stay
valid. However this relationship cannot be expressed in safe Rust code in a
way that would statisfy they borrow-checker. We use unsafe code to erase
that lifetime parameter, and encapsulate it in a safe abstraction similar to
the owning-ref crate: https://docs.rs/owning_ref/