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shelve: add an ability to write key-val data to a new type of shelve files

Obsolescense-based shelve only needs metadata stored in .hg/shelved
and if feels that this metadata should be stored in a
simplekeyvaluefile format for potential extensibility purposes.
I want to avoid storing it in an unstructured text file where
order of lines determines their semantical meanings (as now
happens in .hg/shelvedstate. .hg/rebasestate and I suspect other
state files as well).

Not included in this series, I have ~30 commits, doubling test-shelve.t
in size and testing almost every tested shelve usecase for obs-shelve.
Here's the series for the curious now: http://pastebin.com/tGJKx0vM
I would like to send it to the mailing list and get accepted as well,
but:
1. it's big, so should I send like 6 patches a time or so?
2. instead of having a commit per test case, it more like
   a commit per some amount of copy-pasted code. I tried to keep
   it meaningful and named commits somewhat properly, but it is
   far from this list standards IMO. Any advice on how to get it
   in without turning it into a 100 commits and spending many
   days writing descriptions?
3. it makes test-shelve.t run for twice as long (and it is already
   a slow test). Newest test-shelve.r runs for ~1 minute.

[This file is here for historical purposes, all recent contributors
should appear in the changelog directly]

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea at suse.de>
Thomas Arendsen Hein <thomas at intevation.de>
Goffredo Baroncelli <kreijack at libero.it>
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix at mulix.org>
Mikael Berthe <mikael at lilotux.net>
Benoit Boissinot <bboissin at gmail.com>
Brendan Cully <brendan at kublai.com>
Vincent Danjean <vdanjean.ml at free.fr>
Jake Edge <jake at edge2.net>
Michael Fetterman <michael.fetterman at intel.com>
Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr>
Eric Hopper <hopper at omnifarious.org>
Alecs King <alecsk at gmail.com>
Volker Kleinfeld <Volker.Kleinfeld at gmx.de>
Vadim Lebedev <vadim at mbdsys.com>
Christopher Li <hg at chrisli.org>
Chris Mason <mason at suse.com>
Colin McMillen <mcmillen at cs.cmu.edu>
Wojciech Milkowski <wmilkowski at interia.pl>
Chad Netzer <chad.netzer at gmail.com>
Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com>
Vicent Seguí Pascual <vseguip at gmail.com>
Sean Perry <shaleh at speakeasy.net>
Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh at gmail.com>
Ollivier Robert <roberto at keltia.freenix.fr>
Alexander Schremmer <alex at alexanderweb.de>
Arun Sharma <arun at sharma-home.net>
Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jeffpc at optonline.net>
Kevin Smith <yarcs at qualitycode.com>
TK Soh <teekaysoh at yahoo.com>
Radoslaw Szkodzinski <astralstorm at gorzow.mm.pl>
Samuel Tardieu <sam at rfc1149.net>
K Thananchayan <thananck at yahoo.com>
Andrew Thompson <andrewkt at aktzero.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
Rafael Villar Burke <pachi at mmn-arquitectos.com>
Tristan Wibberley <tristan at wibberley.org>
Mark Williamson <mark.williamson at cl.cam.ac.uk>