feat(run--watch): only restart when runfiles change

[jbedard]

Properly detect when runfiles changes have occurred when doing a rebuild on a run --watch target and if we must update the running target or noop

Changes are visible to end-users: no

Test plan

• Covered by existing test cases
• New test cases added
• Manual testing; 🤖

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• ❌ delivery-uncacheable [delivery] · failed in deliver · failed (1 delivery fail) · 31.5s · Aspect · GitHub Actions
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Reproduce

❌ delivery (delivery-uncacheable · delivery-gha-debug · delivery-dry-run · delivery-dry-run-build · delivery-gha)

# --mode=always --track-state=false for off-runner with no state backend.
aspect delivery \
  --commit-sha=ae7404025675a6f5efad8c8f97d7c05bd93b5773 \
  --mode=always \
  --track-state=false \
  --dry-run=true

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[thesayyn]

looks much much better!