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spartan: make actual changeset entries have backgrounds on /graph

This patch removes a separate container for backgrounds only and puts
backgrounds on changeset elements themselves. This makes it so that JS code
doesn't need to create background elements separately anymore.

There's a bit of manipulating positions of elements: every changeset entry has
a "fg" element that gets a higher z-index than <canvas> element. This
prioritizes text information, so that even if it somehow gets close to the
graph drawn on <canvas> (which has z-index of 5), it'll still be on top of it.
This can happen if commit message has a long first line and browser window is
narrow, for example.

Mercurial's documentation is kept in reStructuredText format, which is
a simple plain text format that's easy to read and edit:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

It's also convertible to a variety of other formats including standard
UNIX man page format and HTML. You'll need to install Docutils:

  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/

Use the Makefile in this directory to generate the man and HTML pages.