revlog: avoid raising no-arg RevlogError for internal flow control
I'm about to make RevlogError require a `message` argument and this
code was failing. This patch refactors it to not raise an exception
for intra-function flow control.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10740
#if no-windows no-osx
$ mkdir -p xdgconf/hg
$ echo '[ui]' > xdgconf/hg/hgrc
$ echo 'username = foobar' >> xdgconf/hg/hgrc
$ XDG_CONFIG_HOME="`pwd`/xdgconf" ; export XDG_CONFIG_HOME
$ unset HGRCPATH
$ hg config ui.username 2>/dev/null
foobar
#endif