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obsolete: use C code for headrevs calculation

Previously, if there were filtered revs the repository could not use the C fast
path for computing the head revs in the changelog. This slowed down many
operations in large repositories.

This adds the ability to filter revs to the C fast path. This speeds up histedit
on repositories with filtered revs by 30% (13s to 9s). This could be improved
further by sorting the filtered revs and walking the sorted list while we walk
the changelog, but even this initial version that just calls __contains__ is
still massively faster.

The new C api is compatible for both new and old python clients, and the new
python client can call both new and old C apis.

Mercurial
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Mercurial is a fast, easy to use, distributed revision control tool
for software developers.

Basic install:

 $ make            # see install targets
 $ make install    # do a system-wide install
 $ hg debuginstall # sanity-check setup
 $ hg              # see help

Running without installing:

 $ make local      # build for inplace usage
 $ ./hg --version  # should show the latest version

See http://mercurial.selenic.com/ for detailed installation
instructions, platform-specific notes, and Mercurial user information.