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doc-front-pagE: add a paragraph about "why the extension"

Let us clarify why there is an extension in the first place.

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  * Explore and audit the rewrite history of a changeset. Since Mercurial is
    tracking the edition you make to a changeset, you can look at the history of
    these editions. This is similar to Mercurial tracking the history of a file
    edition, but at the changeset level.

``evolve`` is experimental!
---------------------------

The long-term plan for ``evolve`` is to add it to core Mercurial.
However, it is not yet stable enough for that. In particular:

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  * Explore and audit the rewrite history of a changeset. Since Mercurial is
    tracking the edition you make to a changeset, you can look at the history of
    these editions. This is similar to Mercurial tracking the history of a file
    edition, but at the changeset level.

Why the `evolve` extension
--------------------------

Mercurial core already has some support for changeset evolution so why have a
dedicated extension?

The long-term plan for ``evolve`` is to add it to core Mercurial. However,
having the extension helps us experimenting with various user experience
approaches and technical prototype. Having a dedicated extensions help current
user to deploy the later changes quickly and provides the developers with
low latency feedbacks.

Whenever we are happy with a direction experimented in the extension, the
relevant code go upstream.

``evolve`` is experimental!
---------------------------

The long-term plan for ``evolve`` is to add it to core Mercurial.
However, it is not yet stable enough for that. In particular: