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template: add revset() template function

Adds a template function that executes a revset and returns the list of
revisions as the result. It has the signature 'revset(query [, args...])'. The
args are optional and are applied to the query string using the standard
python string.format(args) pattern. This allows things like:
'{revset("parents({0})", rev)}' to produce the parents of each individual
commit in the log output.  If no args are specified, the revset result is
cached for the duration of the templater; so it's better to not use args if
performance is a concern.

By itself, revset() can be used to print commit parents, print the common
ancestor of a commit with the main branch, etc.

It can be used with the ifcontains() function to do things like
'{ifcontains(rev, revset('.'), label(...), ...)}' to color the working copy
parent, to color certain branches, to color draft commits, etc.

Mercurial
=========

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.