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Andrew Gallant 2913fc4cd0 tests: reduce reliance on state in tests
This commit improves the integration test setup by running tests inside
the system's temporary directory instead of within ripgrep's `target`
directory. The motivation here is to attempt to reduce the effect of
unanticipated state on ripgrep's integration tests, such as the presence
of `.gitignore` files in ripgrep's checkout directory hierarchy
(including parent directories).

This doesn't remove all possible state. For example, there's no
guarantee that the system's temporary directory isn't itself within a
git repository. Moreover, there may still be other ignore rules in the
directory tree that might impact test behavior. Fixing this seems
somewhat difficult. Conceptually, it seems like ripgrep should run each
test in its own `chroot`-like environment, but doing this in a
non-annoying and portable way (including Windows) doesn't appear to be
possible.

Another approach to take here might be to teach ripgrep itself that a
particular directory should be treated as root, and therefore, never
look at anything outside that directory. This also seems complex to
implement, but tractable. Let's see how this approach works for now.

Fixes #448, #996
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